From: fedzor <fedzor@...>
Date: 2008-04-18T23:34:47+09:00
Subject: Re: How to substitute tabs into single spaces for a String


On Apr 18, 2008, at 9:32 AM, Peter Loftus wrote:
>     val = "     hello     ".sub(/\t/, ' ')
>     puts val
>
> Cant covert tabbed spaces into regular single spaces
> Anyone have any ideas?

Use gsub instead of sub!

sub only changes the first occurence, gsub chances all.

val = "		AWESOME		".gsub(/\t/, ' ')
puts val

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