Re: regex \s == \n???

Stefano, Joe - thank you! I'm only just getting into regex, so I get
easily lost. You solved my problem - each in different ways. A lot of
bang for the buck, indeed!

t.

joe chesak wrote:
Tom,

If you're just speaking of the space character and you want to replace
double-spaces (or triple-spaces or more) with just a single space, you can
do this.

puts a.gsub(/ +/," ")

Joe

On Fri, Feb 6, 2009 at 1:10 PM, Tom Cloyd <tomcloyd@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:


I'm trying to remove extra spaces from a long string which has some EOLs,
using regex. It's not working. Here's a simple demo:

irb(main):004:0> a="\n abc\n a a a"
=> "\n abc\n a a a"
irb(main):005:0> a.gsub(/\s+/,' ')
=> " abc a a a"

I've dug around in my regex references, and all I can say is that is hasn't
been the least bit helpful. I'm probably not looking for the right thing.

Can someone more knowledgeable tell me is there's a way to do this - remove
extra spaces without removing the EOLs?

Thanks!

t.

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