Equivalent of rtrim with StringBuilder in java

Question

I am trying to trim StringBuilder from right side, something like this :

private StringBuilder rtrim(StringBuilder str, Character trimStr) {
    if (str.charAt(str.length() - 1) == trimStr) {
        return str.deleteCharAt(str.length() - 1);
    }
    return str;
}

The above function works fine with character as trimStr, but I want to pass trimStr as string. Any library for the same(similar to StringUtils)?

Answer 1

You can use replaceAll or just replaceFirst with regex like so :

String str = "  some string  ";
str = str.replaceAll("\\s*$", "");//output is "  some string"

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Edit

If you are using StringBuilder you can use :

private static StringBuilder rtrim(StringBuilder str, String trimStr) {
    return new StringBuilder(
            str.toString().replaceFirst("(" + Pattern.quote(trimStr) + ")+$", "")
    );
}

Some inputs and outputs

"  some string   "    + " "    ==> "  some string"
"  some stringaaa"    + "a"    ==> "  some string"
"  some stringabab"   + "ab"   ==> "  some string"

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left trim (lTrim)

For left trim you can just change your regex to be str.toString().replaceFirst("^(" + Pattern.quote(trimStr) + ")+", "")

private static StringBuilder rtrim(StringBuilder str, String trimStr) {
    return new StringBuilder(
            str.toString().replaceFirst("^(" + Pattern.quote(trimStr) + ")+", "")
    );
}

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Another Solution without regex

right trim (rTrim)

public StringBuilder rTrim(StringBuilder str, String trimStr) {
    if (str != null && trimStr != null) {
        int trimLen = trimStr.length();
        int strLen = str.length();
        if (strLen != 0 && trimLen != 0) {
            while (strLen != 0 && str.substring(strLen - trimLen, strLen).equals(trimStr)) {
                str = str.delete(strLen - trimLen, strLen);
                strLen = str.length();
            }
        }
    }
    return str;
}

left trim (lTrim)

public StringBuilder lTrim(StringBuilder str, String trimStr) {
    if (str != null && trimStr != null) {
        int len = trimStr.length();
        if (str.length() != 0 && len != 0) {
            while (str.length() != 0 && str.substring(0, len).equals(trimStr)) {
                str = str.delete(0, len);
            }
        }
    }
    return str;
}