removeExtraSpacesLF

removeExtraSpacesLF removes extra spaces and selected carriage returns from input string

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Syntax

  • newTxt=removeExtraSpacesLF(txt)example

Description

Given an input string possibly containing a series of carriage returns (CR) and white spaces, removeExtraSpacesLF removes all carriage returns except those when: 1) symbol ';' is followed by one or more spaces and a CR;

2) symbol ':' is followed by one or more spaces and a CR;

3) symbol '.' is followed by one or more spaces and a CR;

4) symbol '

\[' is followed by one or more spaces and a CR; 5) symbol '\]

' is preceded by one or more spaces and a CR.

6) symbol '\\' is preceded by one or more spaces and a CR.

example

newTxt =removeExtraSpacesLF(txt) Create a string with unnecesseray line feeds and without text justification.

Examples

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  • Create a string with unnecesseray line feeds and without text justification.

    • Create an input string containing a series of unwanted features. 

    % The input string is extracted from the head of the FSDA function tclust.m.
FileWithFullPath=which('tclust');
filename=FileWithFullPath;
fileID = fopen(char(filename), 'r');
fstring=fscanf(fileID,'%c');
% Starting and ending lines
aa=regexp(fstring,'tclust partitions the points') ;
bb=regexp(fstring,'constrained, Mahalanobis distances\.');
% String
str=fstring(aa:bb+35);
% Remove from string all percentage signs
posPercentageSigns=regexp(str,'%');
str(posPercentageSigns)=[];
str=[str 'x0ANow some wanted line feeds: x0A first item;   x0A   second item.'];
str=regexprep(str,'x0A','\x0A');
% Remove unnecessary spaces and extra line feeds from str but just keep
% line break if before there was ':' or ';' or '.'
a=removeExtraSpacesLF(str)

    Related Examples

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  • Create a string with a series of Latex equations.

    • The input string is extracted from the FSDA function tclust.m. 

    FileWithFullPath=which('tclust');
filename=FileWithFullPath;
fileID = fopen(char(filename), 'r');
% Insert the file into fstring
fstring=fscanf(fileID,'%c');
aa=regexp(fstring,'\\\[','once') ;
bb=regexp(fstring,'\\\]','once');
str=fstring(aa-145:bb+560);
% Remove from string descri all percentage signs
posPercentageSigns=regexp(str,'%');
str(posPercentageSigns)=[];
% str is the input string containing a series of Latex equations
a=removeExtraSpacesLF(str)

    Input Arguments

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    txt — Input text. Character vector.

    String which has to be analysed.

    Data Types: single| double

    Output Arguments

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    newTxt —Output text. Character

    String without unwanted carriage returns and extra spaces, as in cases 1-5 above.

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