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A TypeScript function that returns a modified version of the input string, having collapsed all horizontal whitespace down to single space characters.
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collapse-whitespace.ts
/**
* Returns a modified version of the input string, having collapsed all
* horizontal whitespace down to single space characters.
*
* @param input {string} The string that should be modified to have it's
* whitespaces collapsed.
* @returns {string} A modified version of the input string, having collapsed
* all horizontal whitespace down to single space characters.
*/
export function collapseWhitespace(input: string): string {
return input.replace(/[^\S\r\n]+/gui, " ");
}
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