Given a string, remove all spaces from the string and return it.
Input: "g eeks for ge eeks " Output: "neveropen"
Expected time complexity is O(n) and only one traversal of string.
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Below is a Simple Solution
1) Iterate through all characters of given string, do following
a) If current character is a space, then move all subsequent
characters one position back and decrease length of the
result string.
Time complexity of above solution is O(n2).
A Better Solution can solve it in O(n) time. The idea is to keep track of count of non-space character seen so far.
1) Initialize 'count' = 0 (Count of non-space character seen so far)
2) Iterate through all characters of given string, do following
a) If current character is non-space, then put this character
at index 'count' and increment 'count'
3) Finally, put '\0' at index 'count'
Below is the implementation of above algorithm.
C++
// An efficient C++ program to remove all spaces// from a string#include <iostream>using namespace std;// Function to remove all spaces from a given stringvoid removeSpaces(char *str){ // To keep track of non-space character count int count = 0; // Traverse the given string. If current character // is not space, then place it at index 'count++' for (int i = 0; str[i]; i++) if (str[i] != ' ') str[count++] = str[i]; // here count is // incremented str[count] = '\0';}// Driver program to test above functionint main(){ char str[] = "g eeks for ge eeks "; removeSpaces(str); cout << str; return 0;} |
Java
// An efficient Java program to remove all spaces// from a stringclass GFG{// Function to remove all spaces // from a given stringstatic int removeSpaces(char []str){ // To keep track of non-space character count int count = 0; // Traverse the given string. // If current character // is not space, then place // it at index 'count++' for (int i = 0; i<str.length; i++) if (str[i] != ' ') str[count++] = str[i]; // here count is // incremented return count;}// Driver codepublic static void main(String[] args){ char str[] = "g eeks for ge eeks ".toCharArray(); int i = removeSpaces(str); System.out.println(String.valueOf(str).subSequence(0, i));}} // This code is contributed by Rajput-Ji |
Python
# Python program to Remove spaces from a given string# Function to remove all spaces from a given stringdef removeSpaces(string): # To keep track of non-space character count count = 0 list = [] # Traverse the given string. If current character # is not space, then place it at index 'count++' for i in xrange(len(string)): if string[i] != ' ': list.append(string[i]) return toString(list)# Utility Functiondef toString(List): return ''.join(List)# Driver programstring = "g eeks for ge eeks "print removeSpaces(string)# This code is contributed by Bhavya Jain |
C#
// An efficient C# program to remove all // spaces from a string using System;class GFG { // Function to remove all spaces // from a given string static int removeSpaces(char []str) { // To keep track of non-space // character count int count = 0; // Traverse the given string. If current // character is not space, then place // it at index 'count++' for (int i = 0; i < str.Length; i++) if (str[i] != ' ') str[count++] = str[i]; // here count is // incremented return count; } // Driver code public static void Main(String[] args) { char []str = "g eeks for ge eeks ".ToCharArray(); int i = removeSpaces(str); Console.WriteLine(String.Join("", str).Substring(0, i)); } } // This code is contributed by 29AjayKumar |
Javascript
<script> // An efficient JavaScript program to remove all // spaces from a string // Function to remove all spaces // from a given string function removeSpaces(str) { // To keep track of non-space // character count var count = 0; // Traverse the given string. If current // character is not space, then place // it at index 'count++' for (var i = 0; i < str.length; i++) if (str[i] !== " ") str[count++] = str[i]; // here count is // incremented return count; } // Driver code var str = "g eeks for ge eeks ".split(""); var i = removeSpaces(str); document.write(str.join("").substring(0, i)); </script> |
Output
neveropenforgeeeks
Time complexity of above solution is O(n) and it does only one traversal of string.
Auxiliary Space: O(1)
Another solution suggested by Divyam Madaan is to use predefined functions. Here is the implementation:
C++
// CPP program to Remove spaces // from a given string #include <iostream> #include <algorithm> using namespace std; // Function to remove all spaces from a given string string removeSpaces(string str) { str.erase(remove(str.begin(), str.end(), ' '), str.end()); return str; } // Driver program to test above function int main() { string str = "g eeks for ge eeks "; str = removeSpaces(str); cout << str; return 0; } // This code is contributed by Divyam Madaan |
Java
// Java program to remove // all spaces from a stringclass GFG { // Function to remove all // spaces from a given string static String removeSpace(String str) { str = str.replaceAll("\\s",""); return str; } // Driver Code public static void main(String args[]) { String str = "g eeks for ge eeks "; System.out.println(removeSpace(str)); }}// This code is contributed by Kanhaiya. |
Python
# Python program to Remove spaces from a given string # Function to remove all spaces from a given stringdef removeSpaces(string): string = string.replace(' ','') return string # Driver programstring = "g eeks for ge eeks "print(removeSpaces(string))# This code is contributed by Divyam Madaan |
C#
// C# program to remove // all spaces from a string using System;class GFG { // Function to remove all // spaces from a given string static String removeSpace(String str) { str = str.Replace(" ",""); return str; } // Driver Code public static void Main() { String str = "g eeks for ge eeks "; Console.WriteLine(removeSpace(str)); } } // This code is contributed by // PrinciRaj1992 |
Javascript
<script>// javascript program to remove // all spaces from a string // Function to remove all // spaces from a given string function removeSpace( str) { str = str.replace(/\s/g,'') return str; } // Driver Code var str = "g eeks for ge eeks "; document.write(removeSpace(str));// This code contributed by aashish1995</script> |
Output
neveropenforgeeeks
Another method to solve this problem using predefined STL functions like count() ,remove() ,getline() and resize() is also present. Here is the implementation for the same :
C++
#include <bits/stdc++.h>using namespace std;int main(){ string s = "g e e k s f o r g e e k s"; cout << "string with spaces is " << s << endl; int l = s.length(); // storing the length of the string int c = count(s.begin(), s.end(), ' '); // counting the number of whitespaces remove(s.begin(), s.end(), ' '); // removing all the whitespaces s.resize(l - c); // resizing the string to l-c cout << "string without spaces is " << s << endl; return 0;} |
Java
import java.util.*;import java.io.*;public class Main {public static void main(String[] args) {String s = "g e e k s f o r g e e k s";System.out.println("string with spaces is " + s); int l = s.length(); // storing the length of the string int c = (int) s.chars().filter(ch -> ch == ' ').count(); // counting the number of whitespaces s = s.replace(" ", ""); // removing all the whitespaces s = s.substring(0, l - c); // resizing the string to l-c System.out.println("string without spaces is " + s);}} |
C#
// C# program for the above approachusing System;public class GFG { public static void Main(string[] args) { string s = "g e e k s f o r g e e k s"; Console.WriteLine("string with spaces is " + s); int l = s.Length; // storing the length of the string int c = s.Split(' ').Length - 1; // counting the number of whitespaces s = s.Replace(" ", ""); // removing all the whitespaces s = s.Substring(0, l - c); // resizing the string to l-c Console.WriteLine("string without spaces is " + s); }}// This code is contributed by princekumaras |
Python3
s = "g e e k s f o r g e e k s"print("string with spaces is", s)l = len(s) # storing the length of the stringc = s.count(' ') # counting the number of whitespacess = s.replace(' ', '') # removing all the whitespacess = s[:l - c] # resizing the string to l-cprint("string without spaces is", s) |
Javascript
// JavaScript program for the above approachlet s = "g e e k s f o r g e e k s";console.log("string with spaces is " + s);let l = s.length; // storing the length of the stringlet c = s.split(' ').length - 1; // counting the number of whitespacess = s.replace(/\s/g, ""); // removing all the whitespacess = s.substring(0, l - c); // resizing the string to l-cconsole.log("string without spaces is " + s); |
Output
string with spaces is g e e k s f o r g e e k s string without spaces is neveropen
Time Complexity : O(N), N is length of given string.
Auxiliary Space : O(1), since no extra space is used.
Thanks to Souravi Sarkar for suggesting this problem and initial solution.
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