Enforcing spaces in string resources

Question

In an Android string resource, how do I enforce a space?

For example, when I do " result" rather than "result" I still see "result" in my application's text view.

score 160 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 27 '16 at 03:11

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Did you try to surround your string with quotes? Maybe leading and trailing whitespaces are stripped automatically.

<string name="foo">" bar"</string>

edited Oct 27 '16 at 03:11

Pang

answered Dec 24 '11 at 13:22

Andreas Klöber

Awesome! I did not know we could achieve that with double quotes on `strings.xml`. Thanks :) – Augusto Carmo Jul 31 '19 at 14:17

score 101 · Answer 2 · answered Dec 24 '11 at 13:42

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As an alternative to the answer given by Andreas Klöber you can use this method:

<string name="foobar">foo \u0020 bar</string>

This utilizes the unicode space character (\u0020).

answered Dec 24 '11 at 13:42

Lasse Samson

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What about delimeter? – IgorGanapolsky Jun 27 '14 at 13:58
@IgorGanapolsky They are interchangeable, like in most languages. – Abandoned Cart Mar 12 '19 at 02:59

score -8 · Answer 3 · edited Mar 12 '19 at 04:57

-8

Just quote the value, like this

<string name="str_name">" Hello World!"</string>

edited Mar 12 '19 at 04:57

Abandoned Cart

answered Jul 29 '14 at 15:05

Tang Chanrith

This approach would require developer to manually count the number of spaces by hand, if they care about this number. – IgorGanapolsky Aug 14 '14 at 14:20
Subtract four spaces and it would be identical to the accepted answer. – Abandoned Cart Mar 12 '19 at 02:59

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