Question

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Answer 1

I’m not sure what you want done with that text — could you clarify? A few possibilities and quick solutions below; tell me which you want or paste the full text you want cleaned.

1) Collapse all whitespace (spaces, tabs, newlines) into single spaces
- Python:
text = re.sub(r'\s+', ' ', text).strip()
- JavaScript:
text = text.replace(/\s+/g, ' ').trim();

2) Remove blank lines but keep single newlines
- Python:
text = re.sub(r'\n\s*\n+', '\n\n', text).strip()
- Bash (remove empty lines):
sed '/^[[:space:]]*$/d' file.txt

3) Remove tabs only
- Python:
text = text.replace('\t', '')
- JS:
text = text.replace(/\t/g, '');

4) Remove duplicate consecutive words like repeated "and"
- Python:
import re
text = re.sub(r'\b(\w+)(?:\s+\1\b)+', r'\1', text, flags=re.IGNORECASE)

If you want, I can clean the exact string you posted — tell me which rule to apply.