Trying to replace all white space with a single space.

Question

Any ideas?

My program is a file validation utility and I have to read in a format file then parse out each line by a single space. But obviously, the person who wrote the format file may use tabs, or 2 spaces, or any form of whitespace, and I'm looking for some code to do that. I've tried this:

        public static string RemoveWhitespace(this string line) 
        {
            try 
            { 
                return new Regex(@"\s*").Replace(line, " "); 
            } 
            catch (Exception) 
            { 
                return line; 
            }
        }

I'm assuming this is wrong.
Help!

Answer 1

Could you use String.Replece?

Answer 2

You can do this -

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(str,@"\s+"," ");

where str is your string.

Answer 3

Why not find the index of the first white space, then .Replace(" ","") and then insert a white space at the initial index?

Answer 4

This is a duplicate of this question

however the answer is this (credit to Daok)

Regex regex = new Regex(@"[ ]{2,}");     
tempo = regex.Replace(tempo, @" ");