remove blanks 1d string

[John Pierson]

hi, 

is there a simple way to remove blank spaces from a 1d string

eg:- 

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many thanks for your ongoing help.

[John Pierson]

found the 'search and replace subset string' VI but using a space as the scan string and an empty sting as the replace, it seems to do nothing to the input. help!

[MikeS81]

Hi John,

can you show what you have done? Do you mean a 1D Array of strings?

Mike

[John Pierson]

rather oddly i can't the computer i use isn't on the web and this computer doesn't have LV on it.

I'm using a 1D string, looking through it for spaces and trying to replace any space with nothing

turning say:-

thank you for your reply

into

thankyouforyourreply

I thought using the above vi might work, but it doesn't seem to want to accept a blank string constant as something to search for, it works for any other letter happily.

[John Pierson]

hi, sorry no i just mean a string, not a 1d array of strings.

[Dennis_Knutson]

The function you mention works just fine. Did you set the Boolean to replace all?

[John Pierson]

I did set it to replace all yes.

how did you put in the blank and space stings? right click-create constant-then type the contents or is there a cleaver way of doing it?

[Dennis_Knutson]

Creating a constant works that way for the space. You can use the empty string constant on the string palette. Are you sure you have a space in the string? Right click and select '\' Codes Display. A space will show as \s.

[John Pierson]

might be the empty sting constant constant I need, i'll give it a go when I get a min.

Thanks for your advise.

In 99% sure there is a space in there, typed it in over and over to be sure as when you type one character the constant holder got smaller

[John Pierson]

not sure if it matters but i'm on LV8.2