Remove extra white spaces in C++

Question

I tried to write a script that removes extra white spaces but I didn\'t manage to finish it.

Basically I want to transform abc sssd g g sdg gg gf into

Answer 1

There are plenty of ways of doing this (e.g., using regular expressions), but one way you could do this is using std::copy_if with a stateful functor remembering whether the last character was a space:

#include 
#include 
#include 

struct if_not_prev_space
{
    // Is last encountered character space.
    bool m_is = false;

    bool operator()(const char c)
    {                                      
        // Copy if last was not space, or current is not space.                                                                                                                                                              
        const bool ret = !m_is || c != ' ';
        m_is = c == ' ';
        return ret;
    }
};


int main()
{
    const std::string s("abc  sssd g g sdg    gg  gf into abc sssd g g sdg gg gf");
    std::string o;
    std::copy_if(std::begin(s), std::end(s), std::back_inserter(o), if_not_prev_space());
    std::cout << o << std::endl;
}