How to remove single space between text

Question

This is the input given "S H A N N O N B R A D L E Y" (single space between each letter but 2 space between SHANNON and BRADLEY) I want output to be in this format (given below)

SHANNON BRADLEY

Any way to do this in R or Python

Have you tried searching for string replacement? http://rseek.org/?q=string+replace — Richie Cotton, May 19 '15 at 07:06
Have you even searched before asking here? Possible duplicate of http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3739909/how-to-strip-all-whitespace-from-string — Sri Harsha Kappala, May 19 '15 at 07:08
Between each letter there is one space and between SHANNON and BRADLEY there are 2 spaces. — Utsav Bhargava, May 19 '15 at 07:09

Nader Hisham · Accepted Answer · 2015-05-19T07:31:47.193

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try this in R

text <- c("S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y")

gsub(" (?! )" , text , replacement = "" , perl = T)

this is another simpler one

gsub("\\b " , text , replacement = "" , perl = T)

edited May 19 '15 at 07:31

answered May 19 '15 at 07:13

Nader Hisham

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easiest way to do this. – Utsav Bhargava May 19 '15 at 12:13

score 5 · Answer 2 · answered May 19 '15 at 07:20

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If all letters are separated by one space and all words by two, then you could do something like this:

In [2]: "S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y".replace('  ', '   ')[::2]
Out[2]: 'SHANNON BRADLEY'

answered May 19 '15 at 07:20

Blender

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This is a very nice solution (probably a fast one), and who would actually think to replace with adding a space! – PascalVKooten May 19 '15 at 07:25
Please add the language used. – May 19 '15 at 07:44

score 2 · Answer 3 · answered May 19 '15 at 07:13

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you can do this in python using :

    import re
    s = "S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y"
    ' '.join([''.join(i.split()) for i in re.split(r' {2,}',s)])

answered May 19 '15 at 07:13

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Ebrahim Ghasemi · Answer 4 · 2015-05-19T09:42:48.430

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Using Python :

import sys

myText="S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y" 
for i in range(len(myText)):
    if (myText[i]!=" " or myText[i+1]==" "):
        sys.stdout.write(myText[i])
    else:
        pass

Output:

enter image description here

edited May 19 '15 at 09:42

answered May 19 '15 at 07:40

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ssundarraj · Answer 5 · 2015-05-19T11:11:09.840

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Python implementation:

" ".join(["".join(w.split(" ")) for w in "S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y".split("  ")])

This one-liner would convert it to the required output format.

Explanation: The outer-most split function splits the string into words, the list comprehension reformats them, and the outer-most join re-attaches the words together.

edited May 19 '15 at 11:11

answered May 19 '15 at 07:50

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score 1 · Answer 6 · answered May 19 '15 at 07:29

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Another option in R with gsub:

gsub(" ([^ ])", "\\1", "S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y")
# [1] "SHANNON BRADLEY"

answered May 19 '15 at 07:29

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Or `gsub('([^ ]) ', '\\1', text)` ;) – Colonel Beauvel May 19 '15 at 09:23
actually there would be an issue on `text =' DOG '` either way. – Colonel Beauvel May 19 '15 at 09:29
@ColonelBeauvel, but text is not supposed to look like that ;-) – Cath May 19 '15 at 09:32

score 0 · Answer 7 · answered May 19 '15 at 07:14

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In R:

x <- "S H A N N O N     B R A D L E Y"
paste(gsub(' ', '', unlist(strsplit(x, split = '     '))), collapse = ' ')

answered May 19 '15 at 07:14

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Matt · Answer 8 · 2015-05-19T08:00:21.023

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Python implementation:

import re
re.sub(' (?! )', '', "S H A N N O N  B R A D L E Y")
#"SHANNON BRADLEY"

edited May 19 '15 at 08:00

answered May 19 '15 at 07:25

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That looks like python. – kguest May 19 '15 at 07:46

Ajay · Answer 9 · 2015-05-19T08:04:49.020

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In Python

In [1]: s="S H A N N O N     B R A D L E Y"
In [2]: "".join( [i.replace(' ','')  if i !='' else i.replace('',' ') for i in s.split('  ') ])
Out[2]: 'SHANNON BRADLEY'

edited May 19 '15 at 08:04

answered May 19 '15 at 07:28

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How to remove single space between text

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