How to remove duplicate white spaces in a string? [duplicate]

Answer 1

Refer to the following code part which used rejex in javascript to remove duplicate white spaces.

function trim(value) {
   var temp = value;
   var obj = /^(\s*)([\W\w]*)(\b\s*$)/;
   if (obj.test(temp)) { temp = temp.replace(obj, '$2'); }
   var obj = / +/g;
   temp = temp.replace(obj, " ");
   if (temp == " ") { temp = ""; }
   return temp;
}