From: ciapecki <ciapecki@...>
Date: 2006-09-13T04:30:46+09:00
Subject: Re: removing spaces between single characters with regual expression

Thanks Gavin for your solution

> irb(main):005:0> s = 'A long cat and a quick mouse met o j simpson on
> the t c p stack'
> => "A long cat and a quick mouse met o j simpson on the t c p stack"
>
> irb(main):006:0> s.gsub( /\b([a-z]) (?=[a-z]\b)/i, '\\1' )
> => "A long cat and a quick mouse met oj simpson on the tcp stack"

this is exactly what I need.
Is it possible to rewrite it without using lookahead (?=subexp)  ?

chris