From: Marek Janukowicz <child@...9.ds.pwr.wroc.pl>
Date: 2003-03-16T19:57:57+09:00
Subject: Re: Can't think

On Sun, 16 Mar 2003 19:33:59 +0900, Tim Bates wrote:
> I want to do this:
>   mystring.split("\n").delete_if{ |s| s =~ /^\s*$/ }.join("\n")
> using gsub ('cause it'd be nicer). So what I'm doing is removing those lines 
> that consist of only whitespace. I tried this:
>   mystring.gsub(/^\s*$/, "")
> This removes the whitespace, but not the newline, like the above one does. So 
> really, the question is how do I get the regexp to match the newline?

try mystring.gsub(/\n+/,"").gsub(/\s+/,"\n")

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Marek Janukowicz