How to remove the white space before a word in a sentance in JS

Question

I have a sentence like below,

var text  = 'My       name         is           Ran';

I wnat this text to print like below,

'My       name is              Ran';

I want to remove the space before 'is'.Can anyone please suggest help.Thanks.

Possible duplicate of [How to remove double white space character using regexp?](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/3609080/how-to-remove-double-white-space-character-using-regexp) — hurricane, Nov 16 '17 at 11:28
Possible duplicate of [Replace multiple whitespaces with single whitespace in JavaScript string](https://stackoverflow.com/questions/6163169/replace-multiple-whitespaces-with-single-whitespace-in-javascript-string) — Roberto Pegoraro, Nov 16 '17 at 11:29
Take a look at this: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/1981349/regex-to-replace-multiple-spaces-with-a-single-space — Fabio_MO, Nov 16 '17 at 11:35
Possible Duplicate of https://stackoverflow.com/questions/7635952/javascript-how-to-remove-all-extra-spacing-between-words — Messaoud Zahi, Nov 16 '17 at 11:36

score 1 · Answer 1 · edited Nov 16 '17 at 12:09

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You can use the replace method with second parameter one space.

var text  = 'My name      is  Ran';
var newString = text.replace(/\s+/g,' ');
console.log(newString);

Hope this will help you.

edited Nov 16 '17 at 12:09

Olian04

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answered Nov 16 '17 at 11:44

Er. Mukesh Sharma

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Ramesh Rajendran · Accepted Answer · 2017-11-16T12:15:04.753

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Updated for: Hi Ramesh ,how can I replace only the space before 'is', if my string is My name is Ran;

var  data='My name         is           Ran';
var  result = data.split("is");
console.log(result[0].replace(/ +/g, ' ') +"is" + result[1]);

For the OP Update 2

var  data= 'My       name         is           Ran';//
var  result = data.split("is");
var  result1 = data.split("name");
console.log( result1[0]+  "name " + "is" + result[1]);

Final Solution by the OP question update 5th

   var  data= "My       name     is           Ran";// or My       name  is           Ran

   if(data.indexOf("name   ") == -1)
   {
      var  result = data.split("is");
      var  result1 = data.split("name");
      console.log(result1[0]+  "name " + "is" + result[1]);
   } else   {
      var  result = data.split("is");
      var  result1 = data.split("name");
      console.log(result1[0]+  "name " + "is" + result[1]);
   }

edited Nov 16 '17 at 12:15

answered Nov 16 '17 at 11:31

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Hi Ramesh ,how can I replace only the space before 'is',if my string is – TNTR Nov 16 '17 at 11:42
var text = 'My name is Ramesh'; o/p should be – TNTR Nov 16 '17 at 11:43
@TNTR Okay I have updated my answer for your 3rd update. I hope you not update the question anymore. – Ramesh Rajendran Nov 16 '17 at 12:02
But I am not sure that 'name' is always there but 'is' will be there always. – TNTR Nov 16 '17 at 12:04
Then check the condition for `if(str.includes("world ")){}else{}` – Ramesh Rajendran Nov 16 '17 at 12:07
@TNTR I have update my question. don't forget to mark as an answer. Bye – Ramesh Rajendran Nov 16 '17 at 12:15

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Nov 16 '17 at 11:32

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text = text.replace(/\s+/g,' ').trim();

answered Nov 16 '17 at 11:32

Subhankar Mitra

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How to remove the white space before a word in a sentance in JS

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For the OP Update 2

Final Solution by the OP question update 5th