ruby function to remove all white spaces ?

Question

what is the ruby function to remove all white spaces ? kinda like php's trim() ?

Answer 1

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

Answer 2

on the off chance you meant to ask for the function to remove white space from the beginning and end of a string ... your looking for strip

" clean up my edges    ".strip

would return

"clean up my edges"

Answer 3

Also don't forget:

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

Answer 4

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 .