how to remove carriage returns, newlines, spaces from a string

Question

how do I remove the spaces, carriage returns from in between < and >

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  admin         


        

Answer 1

If this is valid XML you could use the SaveOptions.DisableFormatting enumeration:

string input = @"
  admin
  123abc..@!
  this is an item
";

string result = XElement.Parse(input).ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting);
Console.WriteLine(result);