Spaces Remover

A space is an invisible character used to separate words in text. In computing, space is represented by the character .

There are also other types of spaces, such as tabs, newlines, different sizes of breakable or non-breaking spaces.

The presence of space can sometimes cause problems, especially when there are too many of them or when they are poorly placed. This is why it is sometimes necessary to remove them or replace them with other characters.

Spaces are in fact characters like the others, except they are invisible. To delete them in a text is to search for all characters with the code space and to perform their removal (or replacement).

The Unicode standard defines several characters as spaces: space or non-breaking space, to which add also line breaks or tabs special characters.

In word processors, it is sometimes difficult to pinpoint whether there is 1 or 2 spaces between words, one method is to do a search and replace of (space)(space) by (space) and repeat the operation if needed (for triple or quadruple spaces).

The operation of removing spaces at the beginning or end of strings is called trim.