From: joe chesak <rubytalk@...>
Date: 2009-02-06T21:24:59+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \s == \n???

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Tom,

If you're just speaking of the space character and you want to replace
double-spaces (or triple-spaces or more) with just a single space, you can
do this.

puts a.gsub(/  +/," ")

Joe

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@comcast.net> wrote:

> I'm trying to remove extra spaces from a long string which has some EOLs,
> using regex. It's not working. Here's a simple demo:
>
> irb(main):004:0> a="\n  abc\n  a  a  a"
> => "\n  abc\n  a  a  a"
> irb(main):005:0> a.gsub(/\s+/,' ')
> => " abc a a a"
>
> I've dug around in my regex references, and all I can say is that is hasn't
> been the least bit helpful. I'm probably not looking for the right thing.
>
> Can someone more knowledgeable tell me is there's a way to do this - remove
> extra spaces without removing the EOLs?
>
> Thanks!
>
> t.
>
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