How to correctly represent a whitespace character
So I had the same problem so what I did was create a string with a white space and just index the character.
String string = "Hello Morning Good Night";
char empty = string.charAt(5);
Now whenever I need a empty character I will pull it from my reference in memory.
Which whitespace character? The empty string is pretty unambiguous - it's a sequence of 0 characters. However, " "
, "\t"
and "\n"
are all strings containing a single character which is characterized as whitespace.
If you just mean a space, use a space. If you mean some other whitespace character, there may well be a custom escape sequence for it (e.g. "\t"
for tab) or you can use a Unicode escape sequence ("\uxxxx"
). I would discourage you from including non-ASCII characters in your source code, particularly whitespace ones.
EDIT: Now that you've explained what you want to do (which should have been in your question to start with) you'd be better off using Regex.Split
with a regular expression of \s
which represents whitespace:
Regex regex = new Regex(@"\s");
string[] bits = regex.Split(text.ToLower());
See the Regex Character Classes documentation for more information on other character classes.
No, there isn't such constant.
The WhiteSpace CHAR can be referenced using ASCII Codes here. And Character# 32 represents a white space, Therefore:
char space = (char)32;
For example, you can use this approach to produce desired number of white spaces anywhere you want:
int _length = {desired number of white spaces}
string.Empty.PadRight(_length, (char)32));