RegEx to remove spaces

[Dante]

I need a regular expression to remove all spaces from a string.
The best I could do was this:
var spacefix = / /gi;
var out = data.replace(sp acefix,"");

Thanks so much, Dante.

[Brian Kerrick Nickel]

Re: RegEx to remove spaces

\s strips spaces, tabs, and line break characters. You can do /[ \t]/g if
you just want to kill nonbreaking spaces.

The easiest thing you could do would probably be:

String.prototyp e.stripSpaces = function( ){ return this.replace( /\s/g, "" ); };

So "H e l l o W o r l d".stripSpac es( ); would behave similarly to
..toUppercase.

For the sake of sake, this is an equally viable function:

String.prototyp e.strip = function( exp ){ return this.replace(ex p?exp:/\s/g,""); };

With this, "H e l l o".strip(); would render "Hello", and "Hello".str ip(
/[o]/ ); would render "Hell".

Whatever thou prefereth.

..Brian

[Dante]

Re: RegEx to remove spaces

IE5 has trouble with \s. Oh well.

Also I was wondering how I can write a regex that matches only words
and numbers, not spaces.

I was thinking something with [:alpha:].

Brian, you will receive credit for the Word Counter Script I am
fixing.

[Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn]

Re: RegEx to remove spaces

Dante wrote:
[color=blue]
> IE5 has trouble with \s. Oh well.[/color]

Mine have not.

Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.01; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)
Mozilla/4.0 (compatible; MSIE 5.5; Windows NT 5.0; Q312461)

Testcase:

javascript:docu ment.write(" bl blubb".replace(/\s/g, "") +
"<br>\n"); document.write( navigator.userA gent)
[color=blue]
> Also I was wondering how I can write a regex that matches only words
> and numbers, not spaces.
>
> I was thinking something with [:alpha:].[/color]

/\w/g

Get informed about the RegExp object:
<http://devedge.netscap e.com/library/manuals/2000/javascript/1.5/reference/regexp.html#119 3136>


PointedEars