instance method `squish`

Ruby on Rails 7.2.3

Since v3.0.20

Available in: v3.0.20 v3.1.12 v3.2.22.5 v4.0.13 v4.1.16 v4.2.9 v5.2.8.1 v6.0.6 v6.1.7.10 v7.0.10 v7.1.6 v7.2.3 v8.0.4 v8.1.2

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squish()

Returns the string, first removing all whitespace on both ends of the string, and then changing remaining consecutive whitespace groups into one space each.

Note that it handles both ASCII and Unicode whitespace.

%{ Multi-line
   string }.squish                   # => "Multi-line string"
" foo   bar    \n   \t   boo".squish # => "foo bar boo"

Source

# File activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb, line 13
  def squish
    dup.squish!
  end

Defined in activesupport/lib/active_support/core_ext/string/filters.rb line 13 · View on GitHub · Improve this page · Find usages on GitHub

Defined in String

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