From: Andreas Schwarz <usenet@...>
Date: 2004-06-23T04:03:10+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question - how to replace multiple whitespace within a string?

Brian Tully wrote:
> In PHP I would simply perform an eregi_replace("  ", " ", $state); and in
> Perl I would do something like $state =~ s/\s\s/\s/$state;
> 
> How would one accomplish this in Ruby?

"New  York".gsub(/  /, ' ')
=> "New York"

- or better -

"New   \t York".gsub(/\s+/, ' ')
=> "New York"