How to keep the spaces at the end and or at the beginning of a String

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I have to concatenate these two strings from my resource value files    lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part1  gt you found ALL PAIRS   on  lt  string gt   lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part2  gt  flips   lt  string gt    I do it this way    String message all pairs found   getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part1  total flips getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part2    Toast makeText this  message all pairs found  1000  show      But the spaces at the end of the first string and at the beginning of the second string have disappeared  when the Toast is shown       What should I do    I guess the answer is somewhere here in this documentation link  or is it something like using  amp amp   for the   amp   character

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If you really want to do it the way you were doing then I think you have to tell it that the whitespace is relevant by escaping it:

<string name="Toast_Memory_GameWon_part1">you found ALL PAIRS ! on\ </string>
<string name="Toast_Memory_GameWon_part2">\ flips !</string>

However, I'd use string formatting for this. Something like the following:

<string name="Toast_Memory_GameWon">you found ALL PAIRS ! on %d flips !</string>

then

String message_all_pairs_found = String.format(getString(R.string.Toast_Memory_GameWon), total_flips);

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Working well I m using  u0020    lt string name  hi  gt  Hi  u0020  lt  string gt   lt string name  ten  gt   u0020 out of 10   lt  string gt   lt string name  youHaveScored  gt  u0020 you have Scored  u0020 lt  string gt    Java file  String finalScore   getString R string hi   name  getString R string youHaveScored  score  getString R string ten                  Toast makeText getApplicationContext   finalScore Toast LENGTH LONG  show      Screenshot here Image of Showing Working of this code

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This question may be old  but as of now the easiest way to do it is to add quotation marks  For example    lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part1  gt  you found ALL PAIRS   on   lt  string gt   lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part2  gt   flips    lt  string gt

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I just use the UTF code for space   u0020  in the strings xml file    lt string name  some string  gt  u0020The name of my string  u0020 u0020 lt  string gt    works great   Android loves UTF codes

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An argument can be made for adding the space programmatically  Since these cases will be often used in concatenations  I decided to stop the madness and just do the old          These will make sense in most European languages  I would gather

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This documentation suggests quoting will work    lt string name  my str spaces  gt   Before and after    lt  string gt

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There is also the solution of using CDATA  Example    lt string name  test  gt  lt   CDATA Hello          world   gt  lt  string gt    But in general I think  u0020 is good enough

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It does not work with xml space  preserve   so I did it the quickest way     I simply added a       where I needed it      String message all pairs found   getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part1      total flips     getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part2

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There is possible to space with different widths    lt string name  space demo  gt   amp  x20   amp  x2009   amp  x200A    lt  string gt      SPACE   THIN SPACE   HAIR SPACE   no space    Visualisation

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I ran into the same issue  I wanted to leave a blank at the end of a resource string representing an on-screen field name   I found a solution on this issue report   https   github com iBotPeaches Apktool issues 124  This is the same idea that Duessi suggests  Insert  u0020 directly in the XML for a blank you would like to preserve   Example      lt string name  your id  gt Score   u0020 lt  string gt    The replacement is done at build time  therefore it will not affect the performance of your game

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This may not actually answer the question  How to keep whitespaces in XML  but it may solve the underlying problem more gracefully   Instead of relying only on the XML resources  concatenate using format strings  So first remove the whitespaces   lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part1  gt you found ALL PAIRS   on lt  string gt   lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part2  gt flips   lt  string gt    And then build your string differently   String message all pairs found          String format Locale getDefault                           s  d  s                        getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part1                       total flips                      getString R string Toast Memory GameWon part2    Toast makeText this  message all pairs found  1000  show

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All answers here did not work for me   Instead  to add a space at the end of a string in XML i did this    lt string name  more store  gt more store lt b gt   lt  b gt   lt  string gt

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If you need the space for the purpose of later concatenating it with other strings  then you can use the string formatting approach of adding arguments to your string definition    lt string name  error   gt Error   s lt  string gt    Then for format the string  eg if you have an error returned by the server  otherwise use getString R string string resource example     String message   context getString R string error    Server error message here     Which results in   Error  Server error message here

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I ve no idea about Android in particular  but this looks like the usual XML whitespace handling - leading and trailing whitespace within an element is generally considered insignificant and removed  Try xml space    lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part1  xml space  preserve  gt you found ALL PAIRS   on  lt  string gt   lt string name  Toast Memory GameWon part2  xml space  preserve  gt  flips   lt  string gt

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use  quot  quot  with the string resource value  Example    lt string gt  quot value with spaces quot  lt  string gt   OR use  u0020 code for spaces

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Even if you use string formatting  sometimes you still need white spaces at the beginning or the end of your string  For these cases  neither escaping with    nor xml space attribute helps  You must use HTML entity  amp  160  for a whitespace   Use  amp  160  for non-breakable whitespace  Use  amp  032  for regular space

[android] How to keep the spaces at the end and/or at the beginning of a String?

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