From: Ralf Mueller <ralf.mueller@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T04:53:44+09:00
Subject: Re: spaces in strings

Joonas Lindholm wrote:
> Brian Candler wrote:
>
>   
>> ruby 1.7 was only a development version, so you should move to 1.8.6 if 
>> possible.
>>
>> However, "it doesn't seem to work" is not a useful problem description. 
>> You need to show exactly what you ran, the exact output (copy-paste), 
>> what you expected the output to be, and what platform you are running 
>> under.
>>
>> The code snippet you have shown looks OK to me.
>>     
>
> Ups, what I meant is that the 1.8.6 is the version I have home and at 
> other computer 1.8.7. But if the gsub!(/\s/, '') looks fine I have to do 
> more testing..
>   
String#tr works similar with easier interface: 
http://www.ruby-doc.org/core/classes/String.html#M000830