30-seconds-of-code/snippets/compactWhitespace.md

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Compact whitespaces	string,regexp	beginner	blog_images/travel-mug-1.jpg	2018-12-12T19:11:33+02:00	2020-10-18T23:04:45+03:00

Compacts whitespaces in a string.

• Use String.prototype.replace() with a regular expression to replace all occurrences of 2 or more whitespace characters with a single space.

const compactWhitespace = str => str.replace(/\s{2,}/g, ' ');

compactWhitespace('Lorem    Ipsum'); // 'Lorem Ipsum'
compactWhitespace('Lorem \n Ipsum'); // 'Lorem Ipsum'