--- a/CharacterArray.st	Mon Jun 08 17:51:54 2015 +0200
+++ b/CharacterArray.st	Mon Jun 08 20:33:31 2015 +0200
@@ -956,7 +956,7 @@
 
 trimBlanks
     "return a copy of the receiver without leading and trailing spaces.
-     This is an ST/V compatibility method."
+     This is an ST/V compatibility method and an alias for withoutSpaces."
 
     ^ self withoutSpaces
 
@@ -1239,7 +1239,9 @@
 !
 
 withBlanksTrimmed
-    "Return a copy of the receiver from which leading and trailing blanks have been trimmed."
+    "Return a copy of the receiver from which leading and trailing whitespace have been trimmed.
+     Notice the bad naming - it is trimming separators, not just blanks.
+     Added for Squeak compatibility and an alias for withoutSeparators"
 
     ^ self withoutSeparators "withoutSpaces"    "/ cg: it seems that squeak cares for any whitespace
 
@@ -1493,7 +1495,7 @@
 
 trimSeparators
     "return a copy of the receiver without leading and trailing whiteSpace.
-     Added for VisualAge compatibility"
+     Added for VisualAge compatibility and an alias for withoutSeparators"
 
     ^ self withoutSeparators
 ! !
@@ -6359,6 +6361,31 @@
     "
 !
 
+withSeparatorsReplacedBy:replacementCharacter
+    "return a new string with each separator (whitespace) replaced by replacementCharacter.
+     Typically used with space as replacementCharacter"
+
+    ^ self species streamContents:[:s |
+        self do:[:ch |
+            ch isSeparator ifTrue:[
+                s nextPut:replacementCharacter
+            ] ifFalse:[    
+                s nextPut:ch.
+            ]
+        ]
+    ]
+
+    "
+     'hello wwww'         withSeparatorsReplacedBy:$*
+     'hello ww ww'        withSeparatorsReplacedBy:$*
+     '  hello wwww'       withSeparatorsReplacedBy:$*
+     'hel   lo www   w'   withSeparatorsReplacedBy:$*
+     'hel
+ lo www
+w'   withSeparatorsReplacedBy:$*
+    "
+!
+
 withTabs
     "return a string consisting of the receivers characters
      where leading spaces are replaced by tabulator characters (assuming 8-col tabs).
@@ -7455,11 +7482,11 @@
 !CharacterArray class methodsFor:'documentation'!
 
 version
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/CharacterArray.st,v 1.590 2015-06-08 15:51:54 stefan Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/CharacterArray.st,v 1.591 2015-06-08 18:33:31 cg Exp $'
 !
 
 version_CVS
-    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/CharacterArray.st,v 1.590 2015-06-08 15:51:54 stefan Exp $'
+    ^ '$Header: /cvs/stx/stx/libbasic/CharacterArray.st,v 1.591 2015-06-08 18:33:31 cg Exp $'
 ! !