Question

I have a string of numbers that are a little weird. The source I’m pulling from has a non-standard formatting and I’m trying to switch from a .split where I need to specify an exact method to split on (2 spaces, 3 spaces, etc.) to a replaceall regex.

My data looks like this:

23574     123451    81239   1234    19274  4312457     1234719

I want to end up with

23574,xxxxx,xxxxx,xxxx 

So I can just do a String.split on the ,

Answer 1

I will use \s Regex

This is its usage on Java

String[] numbers = myString.split("\\s+");