Remove all newlines from inside a string

Question

I m trying to remove all newline characters from a string  I ve read up on how to do it  but it seems that I for some reason am unable to do so  Here is step by step what I am doing   string1    Hello  n World  string2   string1 strip   n   print string2   And I m still seeing the newline character in the output  I ve tried with rstrip as well  but I m still seeing the newline  Could anyone shed some light on why I m doing this wrong  Thanks

User · Answer

Answering late since I recently had the same question when reading text from file; tried several options such as:

with open('verdict.txt') as f:

First option below produces a list called alist, with '\n' stripped, then joins back into full text (optional if you wish to have only one text):

alist = f.read().splitlines()
jalist = " ".join(alist)

Second option below is much easier and simple produces string of text called atext replacing '\n' with space;

atext = f.read().replace('\n',' ')

It works; I have done it. This is clean, easier, and efficient.

User · Answer

strip only removes characters from the beginning and end of a string  You want to use replace  str2   str replace  quot  n quot    quot  quot   re sub   s 2          str    To remove more than one space

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or you can try this   string1    Hello  n World  tmp   string1 split   string2       join tmp

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As mentioned by  john  the most robust answer is   string    a nb rv  new string       join string splitlines

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If the file includes a line break in the middle of the text neither strip   nor rstrip   will not solve the problem       strip family are used to trim from the began and the end of the string   replace   is the way to solve your problem    gt  gt  gt  my name    Landon nWO   gt  gt  gt  print my name    Landon    WO   gt  gt  gt  my name   my name replace   n       gt  gt  gt  print my name LandonWO

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strip   returns the string with leading and trailing whitespaces by default  removed   So it would turn    Hello World     to  Hello World   but it won t remove the  n character as it is present in between the string    Try replace     str    Hello  n World  str2   str replace   n       print str2

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strip   returns the string after removing leading and trailing whitespace  see doc  In your case  you may want to try replace     string2   string1 replace   n

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