class String

Public Instance Methods

Source
# File lib/core_ext/string/normalise_whitespace.rb, line 4
def normalise_whitespace
  result = self

  if result.encoding == Encoding::UTF_8
    # \u200D is a zero-width joiner (ZWJ) which is used in the frontend to display the NHS number
    result = result.tr("\u200D", "")

    # \u00A0 is a non-breaking space
    result = result.tr("\u00A0", " ")
  end

  result.strip.gsub(/\s+/, " ").presence
end