From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-05-06T20:01:54+09:00
Subject: Re: removing Whitespace using regexp

2009/5/6 Sriram Varahan <sriram.varahan@gmail.com>:

> How about doing a gsub on the output to remove white spaces.
>
> For example:
>
> "Example Web Page".gsub(" ","")
>
> This would remove the white spaces.

I would rather do

s.gsub /\s+/, ' '

Because your statement removes *all* whitespace:

irb(main):002:0> "Example Web Page".gsub(" ","")
=> "ExampleWebPage"

This is usually not what you want.

> Hope this helps.

Dito.

Cheers

robert

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