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ericmorin21 on 04/24/09


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Powershell - Replace multiple spaces with single spaces

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I needed to clean up strings with an unpredictable number of spaces interspersed throughout. Powershell's Replace method to the rescue.

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  1. $badString = "This        is         not        the way   it   should     be."
  2. $badString #for debug only
  3. while ($badString.Contains("  ")){
  4. 	$badString = $badString -replace "  "," "
  5. 	}
  6. $badString

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Posted By: genericpenguin on October 27, 2010

Maybe a regular expression might be help.

$string = "This is a string with lots of extraneous spaces." $string -replace '\s+', " "

The \s represents a whitespace character (space or tab) and the plus sign means one or more instances.

Just a thought.

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