Eraser

Erase or replace unicode space separators and line terminators.

Sepace separators are replaced with a space and line terminators are replaced with a newline.

Inspired by https://github.com/roysharon/uninums

Plot

John Kruger is a U.S. Marshal working for the Space Line Protection Program (SLPP) specializing in "erasing" controversial characters and replacing them with puppets for their safety...

Installation

Add this line to your application's Gemfile:

gem 'eraser'

And then execute:

$ bundle

Or install it yourself as:

$ gem install eraser

Usage

require "eraser"

JohnKruger.erase("\uFEFF") # => " "
JohnKruger.erase("\u2029") # => "\n"

Eraser.erase("\uFEFF") # => " "
Eraser.erase("\u2029") # => "\n"

Eraser::LineTerminators.erase("\u2029", "P") # => "P"
Eraser::SpaceSeparators.erase("\uFEFF", "S") # => "S"

Development

To install this gem onto your local machine, run bundle exec rake install.

To release a new version, update the version number in version.rb, and then run bundle exec rake release, which will create a git tag for the version, push git commits and tags, and push the .gem file to rubygems.org.

Contributing

Bug reports and pull requests are welcome on GitHub at https://github.com/polleverywhere/eraser.

License

The gem is available as open source under the terms of the MIT License.