Can't remove spaces from strings?

NovaSE

For some reason, I can't seem to remove spaces from a string.
I've tried the following:

var place: String = "placeholder place2"

place.replace(" ", "")

place.dedent()

place.format({" ": ""})

And none of these worked. They all still had the space. How can I remove it?

Zini

NovaSE place = place.replace(" ", "")

When in doubt, read the documentation: https://docs.godotengine.org/en/stable/classes/class_string.html#class-string-method-replace

NovaSE

Zini According to the documentation, there should be nothing stopping it from replacing the space (" ") with nothing (""), and yet it isn't.

xyz

NovaSE Similar to Python, GDScript strings are immutable. You can't alter a string in-place. All string functions that seemingly change the string, in fact return a new altered string. So you need to re-assign the returned value, exactly like in that example line posted by @Zini

DaveTheCoder

NovaSE there should be nothing stopping it from replacing the space

It is replacing the space. You can verify that:

print("before: ", place)
print("after: ", place.replace(" ", ""))

But you're not saving the result.

It's like going grocery shopping, placing items in your cart, and then walking out of the store without the groceries.