MySQL : how to remove double or more spaces from a string?

Question

I couldn\'t find this question for MySQL so here it is:

I need to trim all double or more spaces in a string to 1 single space.

For example: \"The  

Answer 1

If you want to update the existing column which has multiple spaces into one then this update query will be helpful:

UPDATE your_table SET column_that_you_want_to_change= REGEXP_REPLACE(column_that_you_want_to_change, '[[:space:]]+', ' ');