How do I remove repeated spaces in a string?

Question

I have a string:

\"foo (2 spaces) bar (3 spaces) baaar (6 spaces) fooo\"

How do I remove repetitious spaces in it so there shou

Answer 1

>> str = "foo  bar   bar      baaar"
=> "foo  bar   bar      baaar"
>> str.split.join(" ")
=> "foo bar bar baaar"
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