Remove all multiple spaces in Javascript and replace with single space

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How can I automatically replace all instances of multiple spaces  with a single space  in Javascript   I ve tried chaining some s replace but this doesn t seem optimal   I m using jQuery as well  in case it s a builtin functionality

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There are a lot of options for regular expressions you could use to accomplish this. One example that will perform well is:

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

See this question for a full discussion on this exact problem: Regex to replace multiple spaces with a single space

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You can also replace without a regular expression   while str indexOf        -1 str replace

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You could use a regular expression replace   str   str replace          g        Credit  The above regex was taken from Regex to replace multiple spaces with a single space

[javascript] Remove all multiple spaces in Javascript and replace with single space

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