collapse-white-space
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Package description
The collapse-white-space npm package is designed to reduce multiple whitespace characters in a string down to a single space, effectively 'collapsing' them. This can be particularly useful for cleaning up strings in web development contexts, such as user input or text content processing, where consistent whitespace handling is desired.
Collapsing multiple whitespace characters
This feature allows you to take a string with multiple spaces, tabs, or other whitespace characters and reduce them to a single space between words or characters. It's particularly useful for text normalization.
"use strict";\nconst collapse = require('collapse-white-space');\nconst text = 'This is a test string.';\nconsole.log(collapse(text)); // 'This is a test string.'Similar to collapse-white-space, this package removes all unnecessary whitespace from a string, but it also trims the string, removing whitespace from the beginning and end. This makes it slightly more aggressive in whitespace removal compared to collapse-white-space, which preserves leading and trailing whitespace.
The trim package offers functionality to remove leading and trailing whitespace from a string. While it doesn't collapse internal whitespace, it's often used in conjunction with other methods to clean up strings. It's more focused compared to collapse-white-space, which handles internal whitespace collapsing.
Readme
Replace multiple whitespace characters with a single space.
npm:
npm install collapse-white-space
var collapse = require('collapse-white-space')
collapse('\tfoo \n\tbar \t\r\nbaz') //=> ' foo bar baz'
collapse(value)Replace multiple whitespace characters in value with a single space.
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Collapse white space
We found that collapse-white-space demonstrated a not healthy version release cadence and project activity because the last version was released a year ago. It has 1 open source maintainer collaborating on the project.
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