use gsub to eradicate the spaces from text string : gsub « String « Ruby






  1. Ruby
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  3. gsub

use gsub to eradicate the spaces from text string



lines = File.readlines("text.txt")
line_count = lines.size
text = lines.join

puts "#{line_count} lines"

total_characters_nospaces = text.gsub(/\s+/, '').length
puts "#{total_characters_nospaces} characters excluding spaces"








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