Using Java RegEx, how do I compare a variable with another variable, while ignoring quotes and white space?

Question

I have two variables. Variable 1 is in the format

"          35" 

while variable 2 is just

35

How would I compare these two?

Answer 1

You can just use:

var1.replaceAll("\\W+", "").equals( var2.replaceAll("\\W+", "") )

Here replaceAll("\\\\W+", "") will remove all non-word characters from both variables before comparing.