Ruby Programming Language :: remove all whitespaces in a string


	remove all whitespaces in a string I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end of the string. example: " bla @ bla. de " should become "b@bla.de" How can I achieve this? Thanx " bla @ bla.de ".gsub!(' ','') On Monday 28 May 2007 14:46:26 jochen kaechelin wrote: - Hide quoted text - > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > of the string. > example: > " bla @ bla. de " > should become > "b@bla.de" > How can I achieve this? > Thanx gsub( ' ', '') Stefano Alle luned 28 maggio 2007, jochen kaechelin ha scritto: - Hide quoted text - > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > of the string. > example: > " bla @ bla. de " > should become > "b@bla.de" > How can I achieve this? > Thanx On 5/28/07, jochen kaechelin <giss@figgfrosch.de> wrote: > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > of the string. > example: > " bla @ bla. de " > should become > "b@bla.de" > How can I achieve this? You can use String.gsub [1] irb(main):003:0> " bla @ bla. de ".gsub(/\s+/, '') => "b@bla.de" [1] http://dev.rubycentral.com/ref/ref_c_string.html#gsub -- Luis Parravicini http://ktulu.com.ar/blog/ Sorry, I meant your_string.gsub(' ', '') Stefano Alle luned 28 maggio 2007, Stefano Crocco ha scritto: - Hide quoted text - > gsub( ' ', '') > Stefano > Alle luned 28 maggio 2007, jochen kaechelin ha scritto: > > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > > of the string. > > example: > > " bla @ bla. de " > > should become > > "b@bla.de" > > How can I achieve this? > > Thanx Markus Schirp schrieb: > " bla @ bla.de ".gsub!(' ','') Mmmh....I already used this syntax.......then there must be a problem with my RoR code... I will use the according ML. Thanx. jochen kaechelin schrieb: - Hide quoted text - > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > of the string. > example: > " bla @ bla. de " > should become > "b@bla.de" > How can I achieve this? > Thanx It was I RoR mistake i made. On 5/28/07, jochen kaechelin <giss@figgfrosch.de> wrote: - Hide quoted text - > I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. > I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end > of the string. > example: > " bla @ bla. de " > should become > "b@bla.de" > How can I achieve this? > Thanx This is probably slower, but here is another way you can try. p " bla @ bla. de ".split(/\s+/).join Harry -- A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English http://www.kakueki.com/ Hi, since Strings are Enumerable I created a singleton method that overwrites the default one: def str.each &block self.split( // ).each &block end str.reject { \|char\| char =~ /\s/ } But I don't know if this is going to brake anything... Sincerely Florian Am 28.05.2007 um 15:51 schrieb Harry Kakueki: - Hide quoted text - > On 5/28/07, jochen kaechelin <giss@figgfrosch.de> wrote: >> I want to remove all whitespaces in a string. >> I know strip to remove whitespaces at the beginning and the end >> of the string. >> example: >> " bla @ bla. de " >> should become >> "b@bla.de" >> How can I achieve this? >> Thanx > This is probably slower, but here is another way you can try. > p " bla @ bla. de ".split(/\s+/).join > Harry > -- > A Look into Japanese Ruby List in English > http://www.kakueki.com/