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Re:How quickly can you remove spaces from a string? by MichaelGG on Friday January 20, 2017 @07:07PM (#13447986)
Regular expressions can be Unicode aware, right? You should be able to use a shortcut specifier that's equivalent of calling something like IsWhitespace.
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Re:How quickly can you remove spaces from a string? by UnoriginalGuy on Friday January 20, 2017 @11:22PM (#13448768)
Yes. It is people's ability to write good UNICODE regular expressions that is at issue.
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