From: Rob Biedenharn <Rob@...>
Date: 2008-03-26T03:13:43+09:00
Subject: Re: Clean a header

On Mar 25, 2008, at 1:51 PM, Iņaki Baz Castillo wrote:
> Hi, I've a string like this:
>
> header  =  "Header    : \r\n \t  \r\n  \t 111 aaa 2222 3333      \r\n"
>
> I need to clean it and leave as follows:
>
>  "Header:111 aaa 2222 3333"
>
> The best I get is this:
>
>  header.strip.gsub(/(\s*)/,"")
>  => "Header:111aaa22223333"
>
> Obviously this is not valid since it "eats" the spaces into the header
> body. How could I fix it?
>
> Thanks in advance.
> --  
> Iņaki Baz Castillo
> <ibc@aliax.net>


irb> header  =  "Header    : \r\n \t  \r\n  \t 111 aaa 2222 3333       
\r\n"
=> "Header    : \r\n \t  \r\n  \t 111 aaa 2222 3333      \r\n"
irb> header.strip.sub(/\s*:\s*/,':').gsub(/\s+/,' ')
=> "Header:111 aaa 2222 3333"

Good enough?

-Rob

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