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I'm quite new to Bash so this might be something trivial, but I'm just not getting it. I'm trying to escape the spaces inside filenames. Have a look. Note that this is a 'working example' - I get that interleaving files with blank pages might be accomplished easier, but I'm here about the space. #! /bin/sh first=true i=combined.pdf o=combined2.pdf for f in test/*.pdf do if $first; then first=false ifile=\"$f\" else ifile=$i\ \"$f\" fi pdftk $ifile blank.pdf cat output $o t=$i i=$o o=$t break done Say I have a file called my file.pdf (with a space). I want the ifile variable to contain the

I'm using tesseract to recognize a serial number. This works acceptable, common problem like false recognition of zero and "O", 6 and 5, or M and H exists. Beside by this tesseract adds spaces to the recognized words, where no space is in the image. The following image is recognized as "HI 3H" . This image results in " FBKHJ 1R1" So tesseract added a space, although there isn't really a space in the image. Is there a possibility parametrize the spacing behavior of tesseract? Edit I'm sorry, have forgot to add, that I also have serial numbers which include spaces. So I cannot delete all spaces

I want to remove the excess white spaces using VB.net ex. "The Quick Brown Fox" I want output "The Quick Brown Fox" Thanks, inchika You can use a simple regular expression for that: Dim cleaned As String = Regex.Replace(input, "\s{2,}", " ") I realize that this question is fairly old, but there is another option that doesn't involve Regex, or manually looping through the string and replacing: Private Function StripSpaces(input As String) As String Return String.Join(" ", input.Split(New Char() {}, StringSplitOptions.RemoveEmptyEntries)) End Function And the C# equivalent: private string