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I would like to collapse whitespace in a string of the followinf foramat using a some pre defined functionalities.

XXXXX<space>-<space>XXXX shoud be converted to XXXXX-XXXXX
XXXXX<space>-XXXXX shoud be converted to XXXXX-XXXXX

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Something like this should do:
python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. s = 'xxxxx - xxxxx'
  2. space = ' '
  3. nospace = ''
  4. s = s.replace(space, nospace)
  5. print s  # xxxxx-xxxxx
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Python Syntax (Toggle Plain Text) 
  1. >>> s = 'XXXXX -\n\t XXXX'
  2. >>> ''.join(s.split())
  3. 'XXXXX-XXXX'
  4. >>>
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Thanks a lot. Its working now.
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