IndexOf for whitespace

java-programmer, IndexOf for whitespace What if you wanted the indexOf either a space or a \n whichever came
first. Have you a slick way to code that?

Pedestrian possibilities include:

1. pair of indexOfs , take minimum ignoring <0s.

2. Write a loop that uses charAt

3. write a regex

Is there a slick way to handle it?
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java-programmer >> IndexOf for whitespace
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> What if you wanted the indexOf either a space or a \n whichever came
> first. Have you a slick way to code that?
>
> Pedestrian possibilities include:
>
> 1. pair of indexOfs , take minimum ignoring <0s.
>
> 2. Write a loop that uses charAt
>
> 3. write a regex
>
> Is there a slick way to handle it?

int p = s.replace('\n', ' ').indexOf (' ');

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java-programmer >> IndexOf for whitespace On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:38:10 GMT, Roedy Green
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someone who said :

>What if you wanted the indexOf either a space or a \n whichever came
>first. Have you a slick way to code that?
>
>Pedestrian possibilities include:
>
>1. pair of indexOfs , take minimum ignoring <0s.
>
>2. Write a loop that uses charAt
>
>3. write a regex
>
>Is there a slick way to handle it?

I handled it by adding a method to the StringTools class.

/**
* find the first instance of whitespace (space, \n, \r, \t in a
string.
*
* @param s string to scan
* @param startOffset where in string to start looking
*
* @return -1 if not found, offset relative to start of string
where found, not relative to startOffset.
*/
public static int indexOfWhiteSpace( String s, int startOffset )
{
final int length = s.length();
for ( int i = startOffset; i < length; i++ )
{
switch ( s.charAt( i ) )
{
case ' ':
case '\n':
case '\r':
case '\t':
return i;
default:
// keep looking
}
}// end for
return -1;
}

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Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
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java-programmer >> IndexOf for whitespace Roedy Green wrote:
> On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:38:10 GMT, Roedy Green
> <email***@***.com> wrote, quoted or indirectly quoted
> someone who said :
>
>> What if you wanted the indexOf either a space or a \n whichever came
>> first. Have you a slick way to code that?
>>
>> Pedestrian possibilities include:
>>
>> 1. pair of indexOfs , take minimum ignoring <0s.
>>
>> 2. Write a loop that uses charAt
>>
>> 3. write a regex

java.util.regex.Matcher has an end() method that would tell you where the
regex "[ ]" or "\s" or "[\n ]" matches.

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Lew

java-programmer >> IndexOf for whitespace On Mon, 28 Jan 2008 19:19:16 -0500, Lew <email***@***.com> wrote,
quoted or indirectly quoted someone who said :

>java.util.regex.Matcher has an end() method that would tell you where the
>regex "[ ]" or "\s" or "[\n ]" matches.

You can't generalise to other sets of characters with my method on the
fly. You could compose a regex expression on the fly.
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Roedy Green, Canadian Mind Products
The Java Glossary, http://mindprod.com