Top "Whitespace" questions

Whitespace, or white space, is often used to refer to any combination of spaces, tabs, and new lines which create blank space between text, either horizontally or vertically.

What does \v and \r mean? Are they white spaces?

I'm taking a course on lexical analysis, and \t\v\r is used in the lexer token definitions to represent …

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How can I ignore eol changes and all white space in svn?

Combining svn diff --ignore-eol-style and --ignore-all-space is not working: $ svn diff -x -w --ignore-eol-style -r 1143:1177 somefile svn: invalid option: --ignore-eol-style …

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Removing space in dataframe python

I am getting an error in my code because I tried to make a dataframe by calling an element from …

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How can I concatenate strings in a cell array with spaces between them in MATLAB?

I want to concatenate (padding with spaces) the strings in a cell array {'a', 'b'} to give a single string …

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Trim unicode whitespace in PHP 5.2

How can I trim a string(6) " page", where the first whitespace is a 0xc2a0 non-breaking space? I've tried trim() …

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bash: passing paths with spaces as parameters?

I have a bash script that recieves a set of files from the user. These files are sometimes under directories …

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How to remove   from the end of spans with a given class?

I need to remove the &nbsp; after the value of given spans. The HTML looks like this: <span …

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Why does <h:inputText required="true"> allow blank spaces?

When I set required="true" in a <h:inputText>, it still allows blank spaces. I have been trying …

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Emacs Command to Delete Up to Non-Whitespace Character

I often want to make a multiline function call and reduce it down to one line. For example, convert... function_…

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CSS white-space nowrap doesn't increase width?

I am reconstructing a dropdown menu similar to a <select> box using div's and jquery. The div containing …

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