If I have a string with multiple spaces between words:
Be an excellent person
using JavaScript/regex, how do I remove extraneous internal spaces so that it becomes:
Be an excellent person
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They all seem to work, so I voted them up. Note, I added leading and trailing whitespace to your test string. jsfiddle.net/karim79/YhG3h/2karim79– karim792010-12-17 02:28:14 +00:00Commented Dec 17, 2010 at 2:28
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1exact duplicate of stackoverflow.com/questions/1981349/…Recep– Recep2010-12-29 13:58:34 +00:00Commented Dec 29, 2010 at 13:58
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I hope you were placing your wife up on a pedestalDavid Tedman-Jones– David Tedman-Jones2016-09-16 02:14:04 +00:00Commented Sep 16, 2016 at 2:14
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Possible duplicate of Regex to replace multiple spaces with a single spaceKyleMit– KyleMit ♦2017-12-01 15:59:03 +00:00Commented Dec 1, 2017 at 15:59
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4 Answers
You can use the regex /\s{2,}/g:
var s = "Be an excellent person"
s.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ');
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AnnanFay
Note: If you are attempting to remove multiple spaces from (for example) a tab separated file, this will sometimes remove the tabs. That is the only difference between this answer and Yi Jiang's answer.
This regex should solve the problem:
var t = 'Be an excellent person';
t.replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');
// Output: "Be an excellent person"
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Something like this should be able to do it.
var text = 'Be an excellent person';
alert(text.replace(/\s\s+/g, ' '));
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you can remove double spaces with the following :
var text = 'Be an excellent person';
alert(text.replace(/\s\s+/g, ' '));
Snippet:
var text = 'Be an excellent person';
//Split the string by spaces and convert into array
text = text.split(" ");
// Remove the empty elements from the array
text = text.filter(function(item){return item;});
// Join the array with delimeter space
text = text.join(" ");
// Final result testing
alert(text);
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Toto
How is this different from accepted answer? Why your snippet completly different from code?