Re: getting rid of multiple consecutive blanks ?

Quoting Voytek Eymont <[email protected]>:

> I sometimes need to grab stuff from a web page, end up with lots of bamf
> as well as lots of blank spaces/lines
>
> what the way to get rid of multiple consecutive ' ' from the pasted text ?

> Voytek

Hi Voytek -

    Perhaps there is some quick, easy way that some of our IT gurus  
can proffer.  The only thing I can think of is that it may be possible  
to at least partially do so with a pScript or two.  Questions-

1)  Do you refer to horizontal spaces (p32) and tabs (p9) as your  
example would suggest, or/and also vertical gaps i.e. linefeeds (p10)  
and carriage returns (p13)?

2)  In some of your spacey web page capture text, put the cursor at  
the start of a segment of blank space and run the pScript below, which  
will tell you the character value of the character (including  
whitespaces) immediately to the right of the cursor.  You will see 9,  
10, 13, or 32 reported. Record the result. Then move the cursor once  
with the right 4-way button.  If there is now another whitespace to  
the right, run the pScript again and record the result, and continue  
in this manner until the cursor reaches an alphanumeric character to  
its right.  Then move the cursor to the next whitespace and repeat the  
process.  Do this until you have sampled all the types of whitespaces  
that are bugging you, and report back the whitespace character values  
you recorded.

{character value::
/e@
/&varSet@[$1,$$]
/&varShow@[$1]}

   ~John


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