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Rogers
Rogers

Reputation: 2975

How to dynamically remove extra space in a string in Javascript?

How can I make extra space be removed in a string in Javascript ?

For example

I have a string the following string

var string ="how    are you today";

I would like to know what function or trick I could use to dynamically remove extra space in strings in Javascript so that I can have var string ="how are you today"; instead ..

How could I do this ?

Upvotes: 2

Views: 2579

Answers (1)

OpherV
OpherV

Reputation: 6937

Lets assume you have var myString ="how are you today";

If you just want to handle spaces:

myString.replace(/ +/g, ' ');

If you want to replace tabs and new lines as well:

myString.replace(/\s+/g, ' ');

Please note that this does not change the value of myString, but rather return a new string with the spaces removed. So to save this result you would do, for example:

var fixedString = myString.replace(/ +/g, ' ');

Upvotes: 6

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