Remove Consecutive Whitespace
Explore how to remove consecutive whitespace characters from strings using C++20 STL features. This lesson guides you through creating a templated whitespace detection function and applying std::unique with a lambda to efficiently clean strings. Understand how to handle tabs and spaces correctly without relying on standard C functions, enabling you to write safer and more portable code for input processing.
We'll cover the following...
We'll cover the following...
When receiving input from users, it's common to end up with excessive consecutive whitespace characters in our strings. This recipe presents a function for removing consecutive spaces, even when it includes tabs or other whitespace characters.
How to do it
This function leverages the std::unique() algorithm to remove consecutive whitespace ...