How to search for occurrences of more than one space between words in a line

Question

How to search for occurrences of more than one space between words in a line

1. this is a line containing  2 spaces
2. this is a line containing   3 spaces
3         


        

Answer 1

This regex selects all spaces, you can use this and replace it with a single space

\s+

example in python

result = re.sub('\s+',' ', data))