From d2edf893199757ccf466e6b62ea6f3028ad8e7a2 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Tim Chevalier <tjc@igalia.com>
Date: Tue, 10 Sep 2024 17:47:21 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Use skipOptionalWhitespaces() instead of explicit loop

---
 .../src/main/java/com/ibm/icu/message2/MFParser.java     | 9 +--------
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/icu4j/main/core/src/main/java/com/ibm/icu/message2/MFParser.java b/icu4j/main/core/src/main/java/com/ibm/icu/message2/MFParser.java
index 48de63cc74f4..a5c826f87397 100644
--- a/icu4j/main/core/src/main/java/com/ibm/icu/message2/MFParser.java
+++ b/icu4j/main/core/src/main/java/com/ibm/icu/message2/MFParser.java
@@ -49,14 +49,7 @@ private MFDataModel.Message parseImpl() throws MFParseException {
         // Determine if message is simple or complex; this requires
         // looking through whitespace.
         int savedPosition = input.getPosition();
-        while (true) {
-            int cp = input.peekChar();
-            if (!StringUtils.isWhitespace(cp)) {
-                break;
-            }
-            // Skip past whitespace
-            cp = input.readCodePoint();
-        }
+        skipOptionalWhitespaces();
         int cp = input.peekChar();
         if (cp == '.') { // declarations or .match
             // No need to restore whitespace