Handling spaces in strings

go-spaces.go

package spaces

import "regexp"
import "strings"

var spaces_re = regexp.MustCompile(`\s+`) // *any* space
const sp = " " // *the* space

// Replace *any* sequence of white-space chars with single vanilla space ('\x20')
func Strip(s string) string { return strings.TrimSpace(spaces_re.ReplaceAllString(s, sp)) }

// like Python's "string".split()
func SplitSpace(s string) []string { return strings.Split(Strip(s), sp) }

/* EOF */