From: ciapecki Date: 2006-09-13T07:25:35+09:00 Subject: Re: removing spaces between single characters with regual expression > 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" what about to add some additional characters like '&' to work as characters? to make following possible: "a b & c de" => "ab&c de" chris