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How to remove spaces from a string?

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2sp00ky4y0u 2

5 years ago

title explains it all, i want to get a objects name and then remove all spaces from it

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Answered by

chomboghai 2044

5 years ago

To remove spaces from a string, you can use gsub.

testStr = 'this  string has many        spaces'

-- Replace spaces with empty text
testStrTrimmed = testStr:gsub('%s+', '')

print(testStrTrimmed)
-- output: thisstringhasmanyspaces

-- This also works, same thing, different syntax
testStrTrimmed = string.gsub(testStr, '%s+', '')
print(testStrTrimmed)
-- output: thisstringhasmanyspaces

Hope this helps! :)

thanks 2sp00ky4y0u 2 — 5y

Answered by

Sapppower 17

5 years ago

Edited 5 years ago

    try this

name = object.Name
name:gsub("%s+", "")

How to remove spaces from a string?

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