[LANG-1108] Function to replace multiple whitespaces by a character and trim

• Type: Improvement
• Status: Closed
• Priority: Major
• Resolution: Workaround
• Component/s: lang.*
• Assignee: Duncan Jones
• Reporter: Marco Janc
• Created: 03/Apr/15 18:23
• Updated: 05/Dec/16 22:32
• Resolved: 05/Dec/16 21:20

Description

In form applications where user can input data its very often not wished to have successive whitespace characters.

A function that will replace multiple whitespace characters with a single space (or passed string/character) would be a nice feature since I myself repeat this method in many applications.

Something like a shortcut for:

value.replace("
s+", " ").trim()