From: "David A. Black" <dblack@...>
Date: 2009-07-21T01:22:05+09:00
Subject: Re: How to strip inner whitespace in rails

Hi --

On Tue, 21 Jul 2009, Andrew Kaspick wrote:

> Thriving K. wrote:
>> I want to strip any whitespace that more than 1 to be 1
>>
>> For example "A    B    C" ===> "A B C"
>>
>>             "Very    Important" ===> "Very Important"
>
> In Rails (and nobody mentioned it), use String#squish or String#squish!

The question was about removing inner whitespace, though. The only
thing squish does that squeeze or gsub don't do is remove outer
whitespace.


David

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