cudf.core.column.string.StringMethods.normalize_spaces

StringMethods.normalize_spaces() → SeriesOrIndex

Remove extra whitespace between tokens and trim whitespace from the beginning and the end of each string.

Returns:

Series or Index of object.

Examples

>>> import cudf
>>> ser = cudf.Series(["hello \\t world"," test string  "])
>>> ser.str.normalize_spaces()
0    hello world
1    test string
dtype: object