Remove more than 2 spaces but keep atleast one

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January 29th, 2009, 10:08 AM

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Remove more than 2 spaces but keep atleast one

simply want to keep atleast one space out of many, and if atleast one already exists then dont take it out.

e.g.

string:

Code:

string string    string

Regex:

Code:

/\s{2}/

Result:

Code:

string stringstring

Expected:

Code:

string string string

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January 29th, 2009, 10:31 AM

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crap nvm

/\s+/

January 30th, 2009, 12:14 AM

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Quote:

Originally Posted by mwild8

crap nvm

/\s+/

Note that such a regex will also replace new line characters. To replace 2 or more spaces (or tabs) with a single space, you could do this (in Perl):

Code:

$str =~ s/[ \t]{2,}/ /g;

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