How can I remove extra white space in a string in JavaScript?

Question

How can I remove extra white space (i.e. more than one white space character in a row) from text in JavaScript?

E.g

match    the start using.
         


        

Answer 1

Using regular expression.

var string = "match    the start using. Remove the extra space between match and the";
string = string.replace(/\s+/g, " ");

Here is jsfiddle for this