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| From | Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> |
| Newsgroups | comp.lang.ruby |
| Subject | Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space |
| Date | Tue, 26 Apr 2011 11:27:03 -0500 |
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On 04/26/2011 05:03 AM, Brian Candler wrote: > Joel VanderWerf wrote in post #994935: >> On 04/25/2011 11:44 AM, Michelle Pace wrote: >>> pattern incorrect? >>> >>> descrip = "1/4 WELDING LEVER FRONT DRW 14844-C MAT WMA1CM-WLFRONT" >>> descrip.sub!(/\s+/,' ') >>> puts descrip >> >> sub! only affects the *first* match. You can substitute globally with >> gsub. Also you might as well only match 2 or more spaces: >> >> descrip.gsub!(/\s\s+/,' ') > > Those are not equivalent, because \s matches more than just ASCII 0x20. > > d1 = "foo\tbar\tbaz" > d1.gsub(/\s+/,' ') # "foo bar baz" > d1.gsub(/\s\s+/,' ') # "foo\tbar\tbaz"
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Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Michelle Pace <michelle@michellepace.com> - 2011-04-25 13:44 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 13:51 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Josh Cheek <josh.cheek@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 14:02 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 14:14 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Gunther Diemant <g.diemant@gmx.net> - 2011-04-25 15:43 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Brian Candler <b.candler@pobox.com> - 2011-04-26 07:03 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 11:27 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Joel VanderWerf <joelvanderwerf@gmail.com> - 2011-04-26 11:31 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space John W Higgins <wishdev@gmail.com> - 2011-04-25 13:56 -0500
Re: Replace any multiple whitespaces with single white space Alexander McMillan <alexandermcmillan@hotmail.com> - 2011-04-26 05:18 -0500
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