From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T20:23:04+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip inner whitespace in rails

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Hi --

On Mon, 20 Jul 2009, Xavier Noria wrote:

> On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 5:15 AM, 7stud --<bbxx789_05ss@yahoo.com> wrote:
>
>> split() rules the world.  squeez()...not so much.
>
> Why? String#squeeze performs precisely what the OP asks for. There's
> nothing as concise as that.
>
> If what needs to be collapsed is whitespace in the \s sense, then I
> would perhaps swtich to gsub:
>
>   str.gsub(/\s+/, ' ')

I agree, unless speed is an issue, in which case you might be better
off with:

   str.squeeze(" \t\n\r\f")

although it's a bit more heavy-handed and I'm probably forgetting one.


David

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