javascript - How to reduce extra white spaces except line breaks

Question

replace(/\s+/g,' '); reduces all whitespace to one space, including breaks. Sometime I have more than 1 spaces what I want to reduce to one, keeping the new lines, breaks.

Answer 1

You should use:

string = string.replace(/ {2,}/g, ' ');

• \s matches all white-spaces including newlines.

OR using lookahead:

string = string.replace(/ +(?= )/g, '');