About Remove Extra Spaces
Sanitize Your Text for Publishing
The Remove Extra Spaces tool is a simple formatting utility designed to clean up messy text. Whether you have copied content from a PDF, an old website, or a justified Word document, you often end up with strange gaps, double spaces between sentences, or leading/trailing whitespace. This tool normalizes your text spacing instantly.
How It Works
This tool uses regular expressions to target specific whitespace patterns:
- Double Spaces: Replaces occurrences of two or more spaces with a single space.
- Trim: Removes empty space from the very beginning and end of the text block.
- Tab Removal: Converts tab characters (\t) into single spaces or removes them entirely.
Why clean whitespace?
Clean text is essential for database consistency and code minification. In web development, extra whitespace increases file size. In databases, " John" and "John" are treated as two different values, leading to duplicate records and query errors. Use this tool to standardise your inputs.