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I'm a college student working on a semester long project and I have hit a wall with my program. Before I go any further, do know that I looked through the similar threads on stack overflow and none of them seem to match my situation.

I have a string input generated from a pdf that contains abundant data from a table. Problem is, some of the table entries for the department column go from 1 row to 2 due to the formatting and I am unable to address it. For example,

PS 253 (handled fine by my algorithm)

MA

243HON (breaks everything)

I need to ultimately be able to put them on the same row and remove the " \n" after MA to send it along to the rest of the program. I attempted checking for \n one or two index places after the department code (MA) and changing the index from which I get 243HON, which did not work.

I have also tried String = string.replaceAll("MA \n", "MA ") as seen in the code. Removing the space between MA and \n does nothing. Here is the relevant part of my code. Thank you!