From: Robert Klemme <shortcutter@...>
Date: 2009-08-27T17:18:34+09:00
Subject: Re: spaces in strings

2009/8/26 Glenn Jackman <glennj@ncf.ca>:
> At 2009-08-26 12:37PM, "Joonas Lindholm" wrote:
>>  I have a string like '1 334.64' and  I need to remove the space so that
>>  it becomes '1334.64'. I have I think ruby 1.6 in home computer where
>>  worked gsub!(/\s/, '') but in other computer I have ruby 1.7 and it
>>  doesn't seem to work.
>
> An option nobody has suggested so far:  String#delete
>
>    "1 334.64".delete(" ")  # ==> "1334.64"

Another option that I haven't seen suggested:

str.gsub!(/\s+/, '')

Could be a bit faster than /\s/ if there are longer sequences of spaces.

Cheers

robert

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