problem with removing spaces in the string

[ramu]

Hi,

Suppose I have a string like this:

"I have a string \"and a inner string\\\" I want to remove space in
this string but not in the inner string"

In the above string I have to remove spaces, but not in the inner
string(\"and a inner string\\\"). Will anyone please tell me how to do
this?

regards

[runner]

"ramu" <ra******@gmail .comwrote in message
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Hi,

Suppose I have a string like this:

"I have a string \"and a inner string\\\" I want to remove space in
this string but not in the inner string"

In the above string I have to remove spaces, but not in the inner
string(\"and a inner string\\\"). Will anyone please tell me how to do
this?

If you still haven't found a solution, please write:

1) A sample string, as typed by the user.
2) The same string, according to the C syntax.
3) The processed string, in C syntax.
4) The processed string, as written to the console.

Do you confirm that the START of the *inner string*
is marked by \" ?

Do you confirm that the END of the *inner string*
is marked by \" ?

Or what?

[Thad Smith]

ramu wrote:

On Sep 19, 2:13 pm, [e-mail] c-cnrc.gc.ca (Walter Roberson)
wrote:

>In article <1190217378.900 611.188...@22g2 000hsm.googlegr oups.com>,

ramu <ramu....@gmail .comwrote:

>>Suppose I have a string like this:
"I have a string \"and a inner string\\\" I want to remove space in
this string but not in the inner string"
In the above string I have to remove spaces, but not in the inner
string(\"an d a inner string\\\"). Will anyone please tell me how to do
this?

Incomplete specification.
- Do inner strings nest?
- why is the ending delimeter for the inner string \\\" instead
of \" ? What should happen if a \" appears in the inner string?
--
Okay, buzzwords only. Two syllables, tops. -- Laurie Anderson

No. inner strings do not nest. But inner strings can contain one or
more double quote and/or one or more back slash.
The delimiter is double quote and \\ is the part of the inner
string.

The user input might be like this:

"I have a string "\\" I want to remove space in
this "string but not in the" "\"" inner string"

I assume that an inner string has the same syntax as a C string literal.
If not, please show exactly how they differ. If so, then the inner
string may represent \ and " characters by escaping them with the
sequences \\ and \". It is important to note that within string
literals a series of \s are paired:
"\\\\"
is a string literal containing \\, not the beginning of one containing
an escaped quote.

I try here to separate the actual characters in an array with the
representation as a string literal.

Start with
<string>the "bad" boys</string>
having 14 characters, where <stringand </stringare the delimiters of
a sequence of characters (to reduce confusion).

C string literal (which is a string of characters) containing those
characters:
<string>"the \"bad\" boys"</string>
has 18 characters.

A character string containing the above string literal:
<string>I saw "the \"bad\" boys" yesterday.</string>

If you give that string as input to your program, I assume you want the
output to be
<string>Isaw"th e \"bad\" boys"yesterday. </string>,
but without the outside delimiters.

You could read the input string shown above, without the outside
delimiters, from an input stream.

If you wanted to represent the input as a string literal for testing,
you would code
char s[] = "I saw \"the \\\"bad\\\" boys\" yesterday.";

Your earlier example:
char s[] = "I have a string \"\\\" I want to remove space in this
string but not in the \"inner string\" ";

is a representation of the character sequence
<string>I have a string "\" I want to remove space in this
string but not in the "inner string" </string>

Using my assumed definition of inner string, the inner strings are
<string>\" I want to remove space in this string but not in the </string>
and the unterminated inner string
<string</string>
at the very end of the subject string.

Is that what you intend?

--
Thad