Re: removing spaces from a string

[David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org>]

Pascal Bourguignon <pjb@informatimago.com> writes:

> David Kastrup <dak@gnu.org> writes:
>> 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>
>>>>> I would need something like this: (remove-all-space a-sting-var); 
>>>> 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.
>
> Merely:  (delete ?  "ab cd  ef") --> "abcdef"

Oops.  Didn't know about that delq/delete asymmetry.

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