From: Brian Tully <btully@...>
Date: 2004-06-23T04:32:11+09:00
Subject: Re: Newbie question - how to replace multiple whitespace within astring?

on 6/22/04 3:01 PM, Jamey Cribbs at cribbsj@oakwood.org wrote:

> 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?
>>  
>> 
> state.squeeze!(" ")
> 
> Now, how easy is that?!   :)

Simply MAH-velous! :)  thanks a bunch!

Just to clarify...

Should I use state.squeeze(" ") to ensure that it always returns the state
even if nothing was changed? squeeze! seems to return nil if nothing needs
to be changed.

Thanks again!
Brian