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

try

var str = "    tushar is a good      boy     ";
str = str.replace(/^\s+|\s+$/g,'').replace(/(\s\s\s*)/g, ' ');

first replace is delete leading and trailing spaces of a string.