[javascript] Javascript Regular Expression Remove Spaces

So i'm writing a tiny little plugin for JQuery to remove spaces from a string. see here

(function($) {
    $.stripSpaces = function(str) {
        var reg = new RegExp("[ ]+","g");
        return str.replace(reg,"");
    }
})(jQuery);

my regular expression is currently [ ]+ to collect all spaces. This works.. however It doesn't leave a good taste in my mouth.. I also tried [\s]+ and [\W]+ but neither worked..

There has to be a better (more concise) way of searching for only spaces.

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The answer is


This works just as well: http://jsfiddle.net/maniator/ge59E/3/

var reg = new RegExp(" ","g"); //<< just look for a space.

In production and works across line breaks

This is used in several apps to clean user-generated content removing extra spacing/returns etc but retains the meaning of spaces.

text.replace(/[\n\r\s\t]+/g, ' ')

str.replace(/\s/g,'')

Works for me.

jQuery.trim has the following hack for IE, although I'm not sure what versions it affects:

// Check if a string has a non-whitespace character in it
rnotwhite = /\S/

// IE doesn't match non-breaking spaces with \s
if ( rnotwhite.test( "\xA0" ) ) {
    trimLeft = /^[\s\xA0]+/;
    trimRight = /[\s\xA0]+$/;
}

"foo is bar".replace(/ /g, '')

Remove all spaces in string

// Remove only spaces
`
Text with spaces 1 1     1     1 
and some
breaklines

`.replace(/ /g,'');
"
Textwithspaces1111
andsome
breaklines

"

// Remove spaces and breaklines
`
Text with spaces 1 1     1     1
and some
breaklines

`.replace(/\s/g,'');
"Textwithspaces1111andsomebreaklines"