Whitespace in Java

// This is the code I used in java in order to get rid of leading
// and trailing whitespace that the String.trim() function can't
// handle

// line is a String containing the current line I have just read
// from the .asm file

try {
  while (Character.isWhitespace(line.charAt(0))){
    line = line.substring(1, line.length());
  }
  while (Character.isWhitespace(line.charAt(line.length()-1))){
    line = line.substring(0, line.length()-1);
  }
} catch (IndexOutOfBoundsException e){
}