Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a string?

E.g. " foo   bar             "
becomes: " foo bar "

Andrej Mitrovic:

> Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a string?
> 
> E.g. " foo   bar             "
> becomes: " foo bar "

import std.string;
void main() {
    assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
}

Bye,
bearophile

Oh cool, it even takes an optional parameter. Thanks!

On 2/21/12, bearophile <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
>
>> Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a string?
>>
>> E.g. " foo   bar             "
>> becomes: " foo bar "
>
> import std.string;
> void main() {
>     assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
> }
>
> Bye,
> bearophile
>

On 2/21/12, bearophile <bearophileHUGS@lycos.com> wrote:
> Andrej Mitrovic:
>
>> Is there a Phobos function to compress all spaces to just one space in a string?
>>
>> E.g. " foo   bar             "
>> becomes: " foo bar "
>
> import std.string;
> void main() {
>     assert(" foo   bar             ".squeeze() == " fo bar ");
> }

Yikes! I didn't even notice it squeezes *all* duplicates. You see in my original code I just wanted extra spaces removed, not the chars themselves. So the right call is:

squeeze(" ")