How can I trim leading and trailing white space?
As of R 3.2.0 a new function was introduced for removing leading/trailing white spaces: trimws() See: Remove Leading/Trailing Whitespace
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How do I escape spaces in path for scp copy in Linux?
Basically you need to escape it twice, because it’s escaped locally and then on the remote end. There are a couple of options you can do (in bash): scp user@example.com:”‘web/tmp/Master File 18 10 13.xls'” . scp user@example.com:”web/tmp/Master\ File\ 18\ 10\ 13.xls” . scp user@example.com:web/tmp/Master\\\ File\\\ 18\\\ 10\\\ 13.xls .
Split by comma and strip whitespace in Python
Use list comprehension — simpler, and just as easy to read as a for loop. my_string = “blah, lots , of , spaces, here ” result = [x.strip() for x in my_string.split(‘,’)] # result is [“blah”, “lots”, “of”, “spaces”, “here”] See: Python docs on List Comprehension A good 2 second explanation of list comprehension.
How to auto-remove trailing whitespace in Eclipse?
I assume your questions is with regards to Java code. If that’s the case, you don’t actually need any extra plugins to accomplish 1). You can just go to Preferences -> Java -> Editor -> Save Actions and configure it to remove trailing whitespace. By the sounds of it you also want to make this … Read more
Git diff -w ignore whitespace only at start & end of lines
For end of line use: git diff –ignore-space-at-eol Instead of what are you using currently: git diff -w (–ignore-all-space) For start of line… you are out of luck if you want a built in solution. However, if you don’t mind getting your hands dirty there’s a rather old patch floating out there somewhere that adds … Read more
Efficient way to remove ALL whitespace from String?
This is fastest way I know of, even though you said you didn’t want to use regular expressions: Regex.Replace(XML, @”\s+”, “”); Crediting @hypehuman in the comments, if you plan to do this more than once, create and store a Regex instance. This will save the overhead of constructing it every time, which is more expensive … Read more
How to split a string with any whitespace chars as delimiters
Something in the lines of myString.split(“\\s+”); This groups all white spaces as a delimiter. So if I have the string: “Hello[space character][tab character]World” This should yield the strings “Hello” and “World” and omit the empty space between the [space] and the [tab]. As VonC pointed out, the backslash should be escaped, because Java would first … Read more
Split string on whitespace in Python [duplicate]
The str.split() method without an argument splits on whitespace: >>> “many fancy word \nhello \thi”.split() [‘many’, ‘fancy’, ‘word’, ‘hello’, ‘hi’]
Show whitespace characters in Visual Studio Code
VS Code 1.6.0 and Greater As mentioned by aloisdg below, editor.renderWhitespace is now an enum taking either none, boundary or all. To view all whitespaces: “editor.renderWhitespace”: “all”, Before VS Code 1.6.0 Before 1.6.0, you had to set editor.renderWhitespace to true: “editor.renderWhitespace”: true
Removing whitespace from strings in Java
st.replaceAll(“\\s+”,””) removes all whitespaces and non-visible characters (e.g., tab, \n). st.replaceAll(“\\s+”,””) and st.replaceAll(“\\s”,””) produce the same result. The second regex is 20% faster than the first one, but as the number consecutive spaces increases, the first one performs better than the second one. Assign the value to a variable, if not used directly: st = … Read more