Method: String#squeeze

Defined in:

string.c

#squeeze(*selectors) ⇒ Object

Returns a copy of self with characters specified by selectors “squeezed” (see Multiple Character Selectors):

“Squeezed” means that each multiple-character run of a selected character is squeezed down to a single character; with no arguments given, squeezes all characters:

"yellow moon".squeeze                  #=> "yelow mon"
"  now   is  the".squeeze(" ")         #=> " now is the"
"putters shoot balls".squeeze("m-z")   #=> "puters shot balls"

# File 'string.c', line 8945

static VALUE
rb_str_squeeze(int argc, VALUE *argv, VALUE str)
{
    str = str_duplicate(rb_cString, str);
    rb_str_squeeze_bang(argc, argv, str);
    return str;
}