I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
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try #squeeze
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Thriving K.<superdisconnect@hotmail.com> wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
Thriving K. wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
split() rules the world. squeez()...not so much.
s.split().join(" ")
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Thriving K. wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
In Rails (and nobody mentioned it), use String#squish or String#squish!
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botp wrote:
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 10:47 AM, Thriving > K.<superdisconnect@hotmail.com> wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A � �B � �C" ===> "A B C"
� � � � � �"Very � �Important" ===> "Very Important"
try #squeeze
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7stud -- wrote:
split() rules the world. squeeze()...not so much.
...but if you are a regex addict, then gsub() is your fix:
result = s.gsub(/\s+/) do |match|
" "
end
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Why? String#squeeze performs precisely what the OP asks for. There's
nothing as concise as that.
If what needs to be collapsed is whitespace in the \s sense, then I
would perhaps swtich to gsub:
str.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, 7stud --<bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
split() rules the world. squeez()...not so much.
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Thriving K. wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
split() rules the world. squeez()...not so much.
s.split().join(" ")
They're completely different methods, though. They're not in a death
struggle 
They do different things. I wouldn't want to try this
with split:
"abc deffff ghi".squeeze(" f") => "abc def ghi"
squeeze is a better fit, it terms of its stated purpose, than split,
if you want to condense multiple occurrences into one. It's also
faster, in every benchmark I can come up with:
user system total real
2.630000 0.010000 2.640000 ( 2.665775)
0.140000 0.000000 0.140000 ( 0.136925)
(That's for removing extra " "s from a string of length about 500.)
David
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On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Andrew Kaspick wrote:
Thriving K. wrote:
I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
For example "A B C" ===> "A B C"
"Very Important" ===> "Very Important"
In Rails (and nobody mentioned it), use String#squish or String#squish!
The question was about removing inner whitespace, though. The only
thing squish does that squeeze or gsub don't do is remove outer
whitespace.
David
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On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Xavier Noria wrote:
On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, 7stud --<bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
split() rules the world. squeez()...not so much.
Why? String#squeeze performs precisely what the OP asks for. There's
nothing as concise as that.If what needs to be collapsed is whitespace in the \s sense, then I
would perhaps swtich to gsub:str.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')
I agree, unless speed is an issue, in which case you might be better
off with:
str.squeeze(" \t\n\r\f")
although it's a bit more heavy-handed and I'm probably forgetting one.
David
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Agreed, I would default to gsub here because I find \s more obvious
than the character set, but if speed is an issue I'd go with sqeeze as
well.
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On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM, David A. Black<dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:
I agree, unless speed is an issue, in which case you might be better
off with:str.squeeze(" \t\n\r\f")
although it's a bit more heavy-handed and I'm probably forgetting one.