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Jul 1st, 2008

collapse white space in string

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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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Re: collapse white space in string

Last edited by mengqing; Jul 1st, 2008 at 10:35 am.

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Re: collapse white space in string

Something like this should do:

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s = 'xxxxx - xxxxx'
space = ' '
nospace = ''
s = s.replace(space, nospace)
print s  # xxxxx-xxxxx
s = 'xxxxx - xxxxx'
space = ' '
nospace = ''
s = s.replace(space, nospace)
print s  # xxxxx-xxxxx

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>>> s = 'XXXXX -\n\t XXXX'
>>> ''.join(s.split())
'XXXXX-XXXX'
>>>
>>> s = 'XXXXX -\n\t XXXX'
>>> ''.join(s.split())
'XXXXX-XXXX'
>>>

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Re: collapse white space in string

Thanks a lot. Its working now.

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