regex - How can I remove the string " " from within a Ruby string?

Question

I have this string:

"some text
andsomemore"

I need to remove the " " from it. I've tried

"some text
andsomemore".gsub('
','')

but it doesn't work. How do I do it? Thanks for reading.

Answer 1

You need to use " " not ' ' in your gsub. The different quote marks behave differently.

Double quotes " allow character expansion and expression interpolation ie. they let you use escaped control chars like to represent their true value, in this case, newline, and allow the use of #{expression} so you can weave variables and, well, pretty much any ruby expression you like into the text.

While on the other hand, single quotes ' treat the string literally, so there's no expansion, replacement, interpolation or what have you.

In this particular case, it's better to use either the .delete or .tr String method to delete the newlines.

See here for more info