How to search for occurrences of more than one space between words in a line

Question

1. this is a line containing  2 spaces
2. this is a line containing   3 spaces
3. this is a line containing multiple spaces first  second   three   four

All the above are valid matches for this regex. What regex should I use?

user_9994192 · Answer

This regex selects all spaces, you can use this and replace it with a single space

\s+

example in python

result = re.sub('\s+',' ', data))

How to search for occurrences of more than one space between words in a line

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