Powershell Tip #117: Remove whitespaces from a string

By powershellgu | September 10, 2016

Tip: You can remove multiple whitespaces from a string.

$test = 'one           two                    three'

# Solution 1
$test -replace '\s+', ''

# Solution 2 (slower)
$test.Split('',[System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries) -join ''

$test = 'one two three'

# Solution 1

$test -replace '\s+', ''

# Solution 2 (slower)

$test.Split('',[System.StringSplitOptions]::RemoveEmptyEntries) -join ''

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