From: Xavier Noria <fxn@...>
Date: 2009-07-20T21:31:33+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip inner whitespace in rails

On Mon, Jul 20, 2009 at 1:23 PM, David A. Black<dblack@rubypal.com> wrote:

> 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.

Agreed, I would default to gsub here because I find \s more obvious
than the character set, but if speed is an issue I'd go with sqeeze as
well.