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Re: removing spaces from a string
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David Kastrup |
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Re: removing spaces from a string |
Date: |
Wed, 19 Apr 2006 13:42:00 +0200 |
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Gnus/5.11 (Gnus v5.11) Emacs/22.0.50 (gnu/linux) |
Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com> writes:
> On Wed, 19 Apr 2006 12:01:21 +0200, LENNART BORGMAN wrote:
>
>> From: Peter Tury <tury.peter@gmail.com>
>> Date: Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:02 am
>> Subject: removing spaces from a string
>>
>>> Hi,
>>>
>>> how can I most simply remove all spaces from a string? I plan to
>>> have a
>>> variable what holds the string, so functions what operates on regions,
>>> rectangles or any parts of a buffer, etc. are not good (I guess).
>>>
>>> I would need something like this: (remove-all-space a-sting-var);
>>> if e.g.
>>> (setq a-string-var "abcd ef dg ") then this should return
>>> "abcdefdg" what
>>> I will pass forward to another function (namely: process-send-string).
>>>
>>> Thanks!
>>> P
>>>
>>
>> Maybe use replace-regexp-in-string?
>
> Thanks! I looked exactly for this one. Unfortunately I couldn't find it
> (using C-h a ..., and browsing the emacs and elisp manuals... -- now I see
> I should have used C-h d ...?)
It is also possible to do
(concat (delq ?\ (append "This is a string" nil)))
Or a number of other approaches.
--
David Kastrup, Kriemhildstr. 15, 44793 Bochum
- removing spaces from a string, Peter Tury, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, LENNART BORGMAN, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Peter Tury, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string,
David Kastrup <=
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Pascal Bourguignon, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, David Kastrup, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Peter Tury, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Giorgos Keramidas, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Peter Tury, 2006/04/19
- Re: removing spaces from a string, Pascal Bourguignon, 2006/04/19
Re: removing spaces from a string, Eli Zaretskii, 2006/04/19