remove blank space or new lines for the given string
#!/usr/bin/python
# Works at least for python 2.7.3
import sys
import os
import re
# testStr is for test usage, when they are assinged to the variable s in main() below
testStr1="a b\n c \n d "
#testStr2='/path/to/white_space/file'
def doStr(s):
pattern = re.compile(r'\s+')
strg = re.sub(pattern, '', s)
print 'Ridded result:\n', strg
def doFile(fPath):
with open(fPath, 'r') as f:
readed = [line.rstrip() for line in f]
strReaded = ''.join(readed)
print strReaded
doStr(strReaded)
def main():
print 'Args: ',str(sys.argv)
#s = testStr1
s = ''
if len(sys.argv) > 1:
s=sys.argv[1]
if os.path.isfile(s):
doFile(s)
elif len(s) > 0:
doStr(s)
else:
print "Nothing I can do"
main()