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AHELP for CIAO 3.4 strcompress Context: slangrtl

Synopsis

Remove excess whitespace characters from a string

Syntax

String_Type strcompress (String_Type s, String_Type white)

Description

The strcompress function compresses the string s by replacing a sequence of one or more characters from the set white by the first character of white. In addition, it also removes all leading and trailing characters from s that are part of white.

Example

The expression

    strcompress (",;apple,,cherry;,banana", ",;");

returns the string "apple,cherry,banana".

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