From: Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@...>
Date: 2009-02-07T07:08:58+09:00
Subject: Re: regex \s == \n???

David A. Black wrote:
> Hi --
>
> On Fri, 6 Feb 2009, Tom Cloyd wrote:
>
>> Stefano, Joe - thank you! I'm only just getting into regex, so I get 
>> easily lost. You solved my problem - each in different ways. A lot of 
>> bang for the buck, indeed!
>
> Another variant:
>
>   a.gsub(/[^\S\n]+/, " ")
>
> That character class means "all characters that are not a non-space or
> \n." (The ^ is the "not" part.)
>
> You might also be able to use squeeze:
>
>   p "abc    def   \n   ghi\n".squeeze   # "abc def \n ghi\n"
>
> though that's going to be less versatile if you're dealing, say, with
> tabs.
>
>
> David
>
Thanks, David. I continue to be amazed by the depth of your knowledge, 
and outright cleverness. In pursuing this simply problem I'm 
inadvertently learning a lot. I'm grateful. Thanks for your contribution 
that process!

t.

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