Regular expression for removing whitespaces

Question

I have some text which looks like this -

\"    tushar is a good      boy     \"

Using javascript I want to remove all the extra white spac

Answer 1

This can be done in a single String#replace call:

var repl = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$|\s+(?=\s)/g, "");

// gives: "tushar is a good boy"