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Right trim in Java

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I made this because org.apache.commons.lang.StringUtils does not have this method. I used this because i was dealing with a legacy db where all fields were char. trailing spaces were a pita.

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  1. public static String rightTrim(String data)
  2. 	{
  3. 		if(data==null)
  4. 			return null;
  5.  
  6. 		char[]arr=data.toCharArray();
  7. 		StringBuffer s = new StringBuffer();
  8. 		char[] newArr=new char[1];
  9. 		int pos=0;
  10. 		//worst algorithm ever. but works!
  11. 		for (int i = 0; i < arr.length; i++)
  12. 		{
  13. 			pos=(arr.length-1)-i;
  14. //			System.out.println("pos["+pos+"] i["+i+"] ["+arr[pos]+"]");
  15. 			if(arr[pos]!=' ')
  16. 			{
  17. 				newArr= new char[pos+1];
  18. 				System.arraycopy(arr, 0, newArr, 0, pos+1);
  19. 				break;
  20. 			}
  21.  
  22. 		}
  23.  
  24. 		return new String(newArr);
  25. 	}

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