How to remove spaces from a string?

Asked May 8, 20193,510 views2 answers

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

AnonymousMay 8, 2019

2 answers

✓ Accepted answer

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! :)

AnonymousMay 8, 2019Permalink

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thanks

AnonymousMay 8, 2019#

    try this

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

AnonymousMay 8, 2019Edited May 8, 2019Permalink

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