Remove whitespace

Category: Text

Status: Registered and callable in the CyberChef 11.3.0 compatibility inventory.

Input / output: string → string

What it does

Optionally removes all spaces, carriage returns, line feeds, tabs and form feeds from the input data. This operation also supports the removal of full stops which are sometimes used to represent non-printable bytes in ASCII output.

Note

Status here means the operation name is implemented and callable. It does not by itself promise byte-for-byte parity for every upstream option. See Compatibility and current status for the verified scope and known boundaries.

Arguments and options

Arguments are positional. Keep their order when using bake() or Pipeline.then().

Index	Name	UI type	PyChef default	Accepted values / format
`0`	Spaces	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`1`	Carriage returns (r)	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`2`	Line feeds (n)	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`3`	Tabs	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`4`	Form feeds (f)	`boolean`	`True`	`True` or `False`
`5`	Full stops	`boolean`	`False`	`True` or `False`

Recipe template

Important

This is a call template built from the documented defaults. Replace placeholder values such as empty keys, paths, patterns, or lookup data before running it.

from pychef import bake

input_value = "example"
args = [True, True, True, True, True, False]
result = bake(input_value, [{"op": 'Remove whitespace', "args": args}])
print(result)

Pipeline example

from pychef import Pipeline

args = [True, True, True, True, True, False]
transform = Pipeline().then('Remove whitespace', *args)
result = transform("example")

Dedicated operation module

The registered entry point lives in pychef.operations.by_operation.remove_whitespace. Direct calls receive the input value and a positional argument tuple:

from pychef.operations.by_operation.remove_whitespace import run

result = run("example", tuple([True, True, True, True, True, False]))

pychef.operations.by_operation.remove_whitespace.run(value, args)

Run this operation using its shared internal implementation.

Parameters:

value (str | bytes)
args (Sequence[Any])

Return type:

str | bytes