Regex to replace multiple spaces with a single space

Question

Given a string like:

\"The dog      has a long   tail, and it     is RED!\"

What kind of jQuery or JavaScript magic can be used to keep spaces to only o

Answer 1

var str = "The      dog        has a long tail,      and it is RED!";
str = str.replace(/ {2,}/g,' ');

EDIT: If you wish to replace all kind of whitespace characters the most efficient way would be like that:

str = str.replace(/\s{2,}/g,' ');