Unable to remove newline from string

Question

Im trying to remove a new line from a string like so:

jsonata_expr = r'''{
    "ips": *.*.ip_addr,
    "vlans": $join(vlans.($string(vlan_id)), ","),
    "date": $now()
}'''

jsonata_expr.strip('\n')
'{\n    "ips": *.*.ip_addr,\n    "vlans": $join(vlans.($string(vlan_id)), ","),\n    "date": $now()\n}'

But as you can see the newlines are still there. What am I doing wrong?

Does this answer your question? [Python strip with \n](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/9347419/python-strip-with-n) — Gino Mempin, Oct 04 '22 at 10:45

score 2 · Accepted Answer · edited Oct 04 '22 at 10:48

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strip will work only with leading and trailing positions. So one solution is to replace newline character with empty string.

jsonata_expr.replace("\n", "")

Please note that this will produce a new string object(In python, strings are Immutable by design)

edited Oct 04 '22 at 10:48

Yevhen Kuzmovych

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answered Oct 04 '22 at 10:34

Abdul Niyas P M

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Unable to remove newline from string

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