How to remove multiple spaces in between a string

[Sreya Dingari]

Hi, I am a beginner to Robot framework and need some help removing multiple spaces in between a string.

for example:
I have a string like this..

'WATERLOO ON'

I want this to be converted to:
'WATERLOO ON'


In general, I need something to convert multiple spaces to single space, when i do not know how many spaces the string has.


Thank you

[Tatu Aalto]

Ugh

Using String library Replace String Using Regexp keyword[1] should do the trick for you.

-Tatu
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[1] http://robotframework.googlecode.com/svn/trunk/doc/libraries/String.html#Replace String Using Regexp

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[Nadim]

We can do it in two ways as i know.
Method 1:  Using String Library

${Text}=   Replace String   " WAT   ERL O  O         ON "    ${space}   ${empty}

Method 1:  Using BuiltIn Library

${Text}=   Evaluate   " WAT   ERL O  O         ON ".replace(" ", "")

Hope this helps!!

[Mark Walters]

It seems Tatu's link is no longer valid, so in case others come here looking for the solution, I believe this is what he was sharing:

${test3}    Replace String Using Regexp    ${test}    ${SPACE}+    ${SPACE}

So where ${test} contains       "one@ @space, two@  @spaces Six@      @spaces, Five@     @spaces"       (length = 63)

     ${test3} will contain "one@ @space, two@ @spaces Six@ @spaces, Five@ @spaces"                 (length = 53, i.e. the 10 superfluous spaces have been removed)

 Mark

[Rahul Bhatia]

I have data in a variable which I read from a CSV file:
@{data}= M, M  Ma, U S S, 4/22/2020 2:43:25 AM, , , , , 

there are 2 spaces in M and Ma, I want one space there, also there is a space after every comma, I also want to remove that.

please suggest.