Strip White spaces

Rails
1

Hello All,

I am trying to strip white spaces out of a html file or a very long
string and am coming up a blank. Does anyone have some suggestions as
to how to tackle this?

Regards,

j

2

I am sure there is a more elegant solution but I think the following
could work:

your_string.squeeze(" “).split(” ").join

On Sep 24, 9:53 am, “[email protected]” [email protected]

3

what about
yourstring.gsub!(/\s+/,’’)

almes wrote:

Hello All,

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Sincerely,

William P.

4

The problem with this approach is that it removes all spaces form the
document, which is not my intention. I wish to remove all white
spaces from the document while retaining all spaces between words.
Does anybody know how to do this?

5

My mistake. this works great.

Thank you for your help.

On Sep 25, 10:47 am, “[email protected]” [email protected]

6

Thanks for your reply but I can not use split because there is HTML
mark-up in the document that I wish to parse.