• Andrej Mitrovic (3/3) Feb 21 2012 Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a...
• bearophile (7/11) Feb 21 2012 import std.string;
• Andrej Mitrovic (2/14) Feb 21 2012
• Andrej Mitrovic (5/15) Feb 21 2012 Yikes! I didn't even notice it squeezes *all* duplicates. You see in

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a string?

E.g. " foo   bar             "
becomes: " foo bar "

bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> writes:

Andrej Mitrovic:

 Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a
string?
 
 E.g. " foo   bar             "
 becomes: " foo bar "

import std.string;
void main() {
    assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
}

Bye,
bearophile

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

Oh cool, it even takes an optional parameter. Thanks!

On 2/21/12, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:
 Andrej Mitrovic:

 Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a
 string?

 E.g. " foo   bar             "
 becomes: " foo bar "

 import std.string;
 void main() {
     assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
 }

 Bye,
 bearophile

Andrej Mitrovic <andrej.mitrovich gmail.com> writes:

On 2/21/12, bearophile <bearophileHUGS lycos.com> wrote:
 Andrej Mitrovic:

 Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a
 string?

 E.g. " foo   bar             "
 becomes: " foo bar "

 import std.string;
 void main() {
     assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
 }

Yikes! I didn't even notice it squeezes *all* duplicates. You see in
my original code I just wanted extra spaces removed, not the chars
themselves. So the right call is:

squeeze(" ")