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Why does my Javascript trim Function not work?
I am using this function to build a pig latin translator and seem to have everything figured out except for the .trim() part. What should I do different?
function ParseText()
{
var myText = "asdf\n hat\n cat dog\n apple";
var lines =…
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replace substring of matched regex
I fetch some html and do some string manipulation and en up with a string like
string sample = "\n \n 2 \n \n \ndl. \n \n \n flour\n\n \n 4 \n \n cups of \n\nsugar\n"
I would like to find all ingredient lines and remove…
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Visual Studio Code trimTrailingWhitespace set to false is still trimming whitespace on save
I've been using VS Code for about three months now.
I have this issue where I update one single line of code in a .js file (also happens with some .css files) and my diff tool tells me that there are 100s of changes.
Apparently the…
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Elasticsearch "pattern_replace", replacing whitespaces while analyzing
Basically I want to remove all whitespaces and tokenize the whole string as a single token. (I will use nGram on top of that later on.)
This is my index settings:
"settings": {
"index": {
"analysis": {
"filter": {
"whitespace_remove":…
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Ignoring whitespace (in certain parts) in Antlr4
I am not so familiar with antlr. I am using version 4 and I have a grammar where whitespace is not important in some parts (but it might be in others, or rather its luck).
So say we have the following grammar
grammar Foo;
program : A* ;
A : ID '@'…
George Kastrinis
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Remove Space at end of String but keep new line symbol
How can I check if a Python string at any point has a single space before new line? And if it does, I have to remove that single space, but keep the new line symbol. Is this possible?
user4593086
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How to git-add only non-whitespace changes and new files?
We can do diff with some types of ignoring whitespaces:
1) git diff --ignore-space-at-eol # Ignore changes in whitespace at EOL.
2) git diff --ignore-space-change / git diff -b # Ignore changes in amount of whitespace.
3) git diff…
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Regex: How to remove extra spaces between strings in Perl
I am working on a program that take user input for two file names. Unfortunately, the program can easily break if the user does not follow the specified format of the input. I want to write code that improves its resiliency against these types of…
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How to trim blank spaces from PowerShell output?
I am using a PowerShell script to find all occurrences of a regex expression and output it to file. I have two objectives for this question.
Remove leading white space from a column's value
Specify a width for an extra field (LineNumbers)
This is…
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How do I replace sequences of whitespaces by one space but don't trim in XSLT?
The function normalize-space removes leading and trailing whitespace and replaces sequences of whitespace characters by a single space. How can I only replaces sequences of whitespace characters by a single space in XSLT 1.0? For instance…
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Quickly remove unnecessary whitespace from a (very large) string
I'm working with very large (45,000,000+ character) strings in VBA, and I need to remove superfluous whitespace.
One space (aka, ASCII Code 32) is okay but any sections with two or more consecutive spaces should be reduced to only one.
I found a…
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how to remove the whitespace below the bootstrap progress bar
How can I remove or minimize the gap in between progress bar and string: