Remove a white space

Hi
I receive a string like that: "blue sky". I want to remove the white space in the middle. What method to use ?
thanks
paul

In fact, I have this code
public Vector getNames() {
Vector res = new Vector();
for( Enumeration e = _users.elements(); e.hasMoreElements(); ) {
Object[] couple = (Object[])e.nextElement();
String name = (String)couple[ 1 ];
res.addElement( name );
return( res );
I receive a vector which containing string with white space in the middle. I want to remove these white space. How to do that ?
thanks

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Ariel
The expression is:
(^[ \ts]+)|([ \ts)+$)

Arïel, your GREP appears a bit mashed up in the forum -- was it something like this?
(^[\t\s]+)|([\t\s]+$)
If so:
1. "\s" is "any whitespace", so you would not need to include "\t" as well. But I would not recommend this, as a HUGE disadvantage of "\s" is it also includes hard and soft returns: double returns are seen as "any whitespace" (the first return) and then "end of line" (the second return), and the first is removed. ("Disadvantage" is subject to what you want to accomplish, by the way. I usually don't want this so I list each possible whitespace character that may be removed.)
2. The parentheses around each 'section' of this GREP are not necessary. The OR operator is 'highest level' -- in this case, since you have an entire left part OR an entire right part, you can omit all parentheses.
3. This works for me ...
^[\t ]+|[\t ]+$
... and despite Peter's not-too-shabby suggestion, I would still recommend using mine instead. It's easier on ID (since it only has to remove text, not "remove-and-then-insert-again" (which is exactly what using the $.. operators do), and, more importantly, there are limits to what $1 can 'pick up'. I can't recall the special circumstances, but I have had text attributes shift, and footnotes and anchored objects disappear/being mucked up/otherwise mangled.

Remove a white space

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