From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2005-05-06T08:53:08+09:00
Subject: Re: String Manipulation Nuby Question

Hi --

On Fri, 6 May 2005, Logan Capaldo wrote:

> On 5/5/05, Chris Roos <chris@seagul.co.uk> wrote:
>>
>> I have a Person with title, forename and surname (all of which are
>> optional).  I want to return a 'pretty' name for this person in the format..
>
> "#{title} #{forename} #{surname}".strip

Much more succinct than mine :-)  You would, however, have to put a
.squeeze(" ") in there too, to take out extra spaces in the middle.

    "  Mrs.   Emma  Peel   ".squeeze(" ").strip
    => "Mrs. Emma Peel"


David

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