For issues related to removing additional blank-characters like spaces, tabs and new lines or issues related to removing unwanted whitespace.
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Oracle trim whitespace on the inside of a string
I am storing phone numbers as VARCHAR2 in my system to allow for users to input '+' characters infront of their phone number if they so choose.
My regexp allows for this perfectly, but when storing the number in the database I want to strip out all…
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remove whitespace in std::string
In C++, what's an easy way to turn:
This std::string
\t\tHELLO WORLD\r\nHELLO\t\nWORLD \t
Into:
HELLOWORLDHELLOWORLD
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How can I trim whitespace by Velocity
I have a method called render_something which can creates a lot of whitespace, for example:
#render_something('xxx')
The result can be:
something that generate from redner_something
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Surasin Tancharoen
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Removing more than one white-space
So, If I have a string like
"hello what is my name"
How can I take all of the spaces and replace each with only one space?
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How to remove whitespace from right end of NSString?
This removes white space from both ends of a string:
NSString *newString = [oldString stringByTrimmingCharactersInSet:[NSCharacterSet whitespaceAndNewlineCharacterSet]];
How do I remove white space from just the right end of a string?
UPDATE: The…
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git - trim whitespace
I've accidentally put some whitespace in my initial commit - it shows up red in git diff --color. What's the best way to get rid of the existing whitespace and how can I avoid this happening again?
I am not necessarily looking for a built-in git…
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Delete whitespace in each begin of line of file, using bash
How i can delete whitespace in each line of file, using bash
For instance, file1.txt. Before:
gg g
gg g
t ttt
after:
gg g
gg g
t ttt
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git remove trailing whitespace in new files before commit
I know removing trailing whitespace can be done with a pre-commit hook. I am interested in doing it manually. I read the question here:
Make git automatically remove trailing whitespace before committing - Stack Overflow
The answer closest to what I…
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How to remove leading and trailing whitespaces?
I'm using awk '{gsub(/^[ \t]+|[ \t]+$/,""); print;}' in.txt > out.txt to remove both leading and trailing whitespaces.
The problem is the output file actually has trailing whitespaces! All lines are of the same length - they are right padded with…
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Why was the introduction of the `white-space-collapsing` CSS3 property postponed to CSS-text-4 (possibly as `text-space-collapse`)?
During the development of the CSS3 specifiction, the introduction of white-space-collapsing was considered.
Such a property would help to solve a nowadays common HTML/CSS problem.
Unfortunately, the current CSS3 spec does not contain this property…
Hauke P.
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Replace space with an underscore
I am trying to write something that will replace all the spaces in a string with an underscore.
What I have so far.
string space2underscore(string text)
{
for(int i = 0; i < text.length(); i++)
{
if(text[i] == ' ')
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Any way to remove trailing whitespace *FOR EDITED* lines in Eclipse [for Java]?
Removing trailing white space for all lines has already been answered:
How to auto-remove trailing whitespace in Eclipse?
However, I haven't been able to try to find a way to do so for only the lines that I edited.
Please don't mark this as…
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Shiny nesting a link within a paragraph has unwanted whitespace
I'm building a Shiny app with some dynamically generated HTML which includes a link in mid-sentence. Unfortunately if I use the tags functions to do this, every element has a space around it whether I want it or not.
For example, if I wanted to…
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Difference between using Split with no parameters and RemoveEmptyEntries option
I'm checking lines in a given text file. Lines may have random whitespace and I'm only interested in checking the number of words in the line and not the whitespace. I do:
string[] arrParts = strLine.Trim().Split();
if (arrParts.Length > 0)
{
…
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Handling \u200b (Zero width space) character in text preprocessing for NLP task
I'm preprocessing some text for a NER model I'm training, and I'm encountering this character quite a lot. This character is not removed with strip():
>>> 'Hello world!\u200b'.strip()
'Hello world!\u200b'
It is not considered a whitespace for…
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