Ruby function to remove all white spaces?

问题:

What is the Ruby function to remove all white space? Kind of like php's trim()?

回答1:

If you want to remove only leading and trailing whitespace (like PHP's trim) you can use .strip, but if you want to remove all whitespace, you can use .gsub(/\s+/, "") instead .

回答2:

s = "I have white space".delete(' ')

And to emulate PHP's trim() function:

s = "   I have leading and trailing white space   ".strip

回答3:

Related answer:

"   clean up my edges    ".strip

returns

"clean up my edges"

回答4:

String#strip - remove all whitespace from the start and the end.

String#lstrip - just from the start.

String#rstrip - just from the end.

String#chomp (with no arguments) - deletes line separators (\n or \r\n) from the end.

String#chop - deletes the last character.

String#delete - x.delete(" \t\r\n") - deletes all listed whitespace.

String#gsub - x.gsub(/[[:space:]]/, '') - removes all whitespace, including unicode ones.

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Note: All the methods above return a new string instead of mutating the original. If you want to change the string in place, call the corresponding method with ! at the end.

回答5:

"1232 23 2 23 232 232".delete(' ')
=> "123223223232232"

Delete works faster =)

user         system     total      real
gsub, s      0.180000   0.010000   0.190000 (0.193014)
gsub, s+     0.200000   0.000000   0.200000 (0.196408)
gsub, space  0.220000   0.000000   0.220000 (0.222711)
gsub, join   0.200000   0.000000   0.200000 (0.193478)
delete       0.040000   0.000000   0.040000 (0.045157)

回答6:

You can use squish method. It removes white space on both ends of the string and groups multiple white space to single space.

For eg.

" a  b  c ".squish

will result to:

"a b c"

Check this reference from api.rubyonrails.org.

EDIT: It works only for ruby on rails

回答7:

It's a bit late, but anyone else googling this page might be interested in this version -

If you want to clean up a chunk of pre-formatted text that a user may have cut & pasted into your app somehow, but preserve the word spacing, try this:

content = "      a big nasty          chunk of     something

that's been pasted                        from a webpage       or something        and looks 

like      this

"

content.gsub(/\s+/, " ").strip

#=> "a big nasty chunk of something that's been pasted from a webpage or something and looks like this"

回答8:

Ruby's .strip method performs the PHP equivalent to trim().

To remove all whitespace:

"  leading    trailing   ".squeeze(' ').strip
=> "leading trailing"

@Tass made me aware that my original answer removes duplicate letters in succession - YUCK! I've since switched to the squish method which is smarter about such occurrences if using the Rails framework.

require 'active_support/all'
"  leading    trailing   ".squish
=> "leading trailing"

"  good    men   ".squish
=> "good men"

Cite: http://apidock.com/rails/String/squish

回答9:

" Raheem Shaik ".strip

It will removes left & right side spaces. This code would give us: "Raheem Shaik"

回答10:

Also don't forget:

$ s = "   I have white space   ".split
=> ["I", "have", "white", "space"]

回答11:

split.join will blast all spaces anywhere in the string.

"  a b  c    d     ".split.join
> "abcd"

It's easy to type and remember, so it's nice on the console and for quick hacking. Arguably not welcome in serious code though as it masks the intent.

(Based on Piotr's comment in Justicle's answer above.)

回答12:

You Could try this

"Some Special Text Values".gsub(/[[:space:]]+/, "")

using :space: removes non breaking space along with regular space.

回答13:

"asd sda sda sd".gsub(' ', '')
=> "asdsdasdasd"

回答14:

Use gsub or delete. The difference is gsub could remove tabs, while delete cannot. Sometimes you do have tabs in files which are added by the editors.

a = "\tI have some whitespaces.\t"
a.gsub!(/\s/, '')  #=>  "Ihavesomewhitespaces."
a.gsub!(/ /, '')   #=>  "\tIhavesomewhitespaces.\t"
a.delete!(" ")     #=>  "\tIhavesomewhitespaces.\t"
a.delete!("/\s/")  #=>  "\tIhavesomewhitespaces.\t"
a.delete!('/\s/')  #=>  using single quote is unexpected, and you'll get "\tI have ome whitepace.\t"

回答15:

For behavior exactly matching PHP trim, the simplest method is to use the String#strip method, like so:

string = "  Many have tried; many have failed!    "
puts "Original [#{string}]:#{string.length}"
new_string = string.strip
puts "Updated  [#{new_string}]:#{new_string.length}"

Ruby also has an edit-in-place version, as well, called String.strip! (note the trailing '!'). This doesn't require creating a copy of the string, and can be significantly faster for some uses:

string = "  Many have tried; many have failed!    "
puts "Original [#{string}]:#{string.length}"
string.strip!
puts "Updated  [#{string}]:#{string.length}"

Both versions produce this output:

Original [  Many have tried; many have failed!    ]:40
Updated  [Many have tried; many have failed!]:34

I created a benchmark to test the performance of some basic uses of strip and strip!, as well as some alternatives. The test is this:

require 'benchmark'

string = 'asdfghjkl'
Times = 25_000

a = Times.times.map {|n| spaces = ' ' * (1+n/4); "#{spaces}#{spaces}#{string}#{spaces}" }
b = Times.times.map {|n| spaces = ' ' * (1+n/4); "#{spaces}#{spaces}#{string}#{spaces}" }
c = Times.times.map {|n| spaces = ' ' * (1+n/4); "#{spaces}#{spaces}#{string}#{spaces}" }
d = Times.times.map {|n| spaces = ' ' * (1+n/4); "#{spaces}#{spaces}#{string}#{spaces}" }

puts RUBY_DESCRIPTION
puts "============================================================"
puts "Running tests for trimming strings"

Benchmark.bm(20) do |x|
  x.report("s.strip:")                 { a.each {|s| s = s.strip } }
  x.report("s.rstrip.lstrip:")         { a.each {|s| s = s.rstrip.lstrip } }
  x.report("s.gsub:")                  { a.each {|s| s = s.gsub(/^\s+|\s+$/, "") } }
  x.report("s.sub.sub:")               { a.each {|s| s = s.sub(/^\s+/, "").sub(/\s+$/, "") } }

  x.report("s.strip!")                 { a.each {|s| s.strip! } }
  x.report("s.rstrip!.lstrip!:")       { b.each {|s| s.rstrip! ; s.lstrip! } }
  x.report("s.gsub!:")                 { c.each {|s| s.gsub!(/^\s+|\s+$/, "") } }
  x.report("s.sub!.sub!:")             { d.each {|s| s.sub!(/^\s+/, "") ; s.sub!(/\s+$/, "") } }
end

These are the results:

ruby 2.2.5p319 (2016-04-26 revision 54774) [x86_64-darwin14]
============================================================
Running tests for trimming strings
                           user     system      total        real
s.strip:               2.690000   0.320000   3.010000 (  4.048079)
s.rstrip.lstrip:       2.790000   0.060000   2.850000 (  3.110281)
s.gsub:               13.060000   5.800000  18.860000 ( 19.264533)
s.sub.sub:             9.880000   4.910000  14.790000 ( 14.945006)
s.strip!               2.750000   0.080000   2.830000 (  2.960402)
s.rstrip!.lstrip!:     2.670000   0.320000   2.990000 (  3.221094)
s.gsub!:              13.410000   6.490000  19.900000 ( 20.392547)
s.sub!.sub!:          10.260000   5.680000  15.940000 ( 16.411131)

回答16:

My personal preference is using the method .tr

as in:

string = "this is a string to smash together"

string.tr(' ', '') # => "thisisastringtosmashtogether"

Thanks to @FrankScmitt for pointing out that to make this delete all whitespace(not just spaces) you would need to write it as such:

string = "this is a string with tabs\t and a \nnewline"

string.tr(" \n\t", '') # => "thisisastringwithtabsandanewline"

回答17:

I was trying to do this as I wanted to use a records "title" as an id in the view but the titles had spaces.

a solution is:

record.value.delete(' ') # Foo Bar -> FooBar

回答18:

The gsub method will do just fine.
The gsub method can be called on a string and says:

a = "this is a string"
a = a.gsub(" ","")
puts a
#Output: thisisastring

The gsub method searches for every occurrence of the first argument and replaces it with the second argument. In this case, it will replace every space within the string and remove it.

Another example:

b = "the white fox has a torn tail"

Let's replace every occurrence of the letter " t " with a capital " T "

b = b.gsub("t","T")
puts b 
#Output: The whiTe fox has a Torn Tail

回答19:

Ruby's .scan() and .join() methods of String can also help to overcome whitespace in string.

scan(/\w+/).join will remove all spaces and join the string

string = "White spaces in me".scan(/\w+/).join
=>"Whitespacesinme"

It is also removing space from left and right part of the string. Means ltrim, rtrim and trim. Just in case if someone has background over C, FoxPro or Visual Basic and jump in Ruby.

2.1.6 :002 > string = " White spaces in me ".scan(/\w+/).join => "Whitespacesinme" 2.1.6 :003 > string = " White spaces in me".scan(/\w+/).join => "Whitespacesinme" 2.1.6 :004 > string = "White spaces in me ".scan(/\w+/).join => "Whitespacesinme" 2.1.6 :005 >

回答20:

I would use something like this:

my_string = "Foo bar\nbaz quux"

my_string.split.join
=> "Foobarbazquux"

回答21:

You can try this:

"ab c d efg hi ".split.map(&:strip)

in order to get this:

["ab, "c", "d", "efg", "hi"]

or if you want a single string, just use:

"ab c d efg hi ".split.join