How do I remove repeated spaces in a string?

Question

I have a string:

\"foo (2 spaces) bar (3 spaces) baaar (6 spaces) fooo\"

How do I remove repetitious spaces in it so there shou

Answer 1

Just use gsub and regexp. For example:

str = "foo  bar   bar      baaar"
str.gsub(/\s+/, " ")

will return new string or you can modify str directly using gsub!.

BTW. Regexp are very useful - there are plenty resources in the internet, for testing your own regexpes try rubular.com for example.