From: Phillip Gawlowski <cmdjackryan@...>
Date: 2008-04-18T23:18:55+09:00
Subject: Re: How to substitute tabs into single spaces for a String

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Peter Loftus wrote:
|     val = "     hello     ".sub(/\t/, ' ')
|     puts val
|
| Cant covert tabbed spaces into regular single spaces
| Anyone have any ideas?

You could use a regex that converts whitespace into a single space, in
case tbas aren't the \t character, but are expanded to spaces.

http://doc.infosnel.nl/ruby_regular_expressions.html

(Best thing I found but Programming Ruby and The Ruby Way cover this,
and Programming Ruby's 1st Edition is available for free.)

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