Use whitespace as the place holder : gsub « String « Ruby






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Use whitespace as the place holder



" \bIt's whitespace, Jim,\vbut not as we know it.\n".gsub(/[\s\b\v]+/, " ")
# => " It's whitespace, Jim, but not as we know it. "








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