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c# Fastest way to remove extra white spaces

What is the fastest way to replace extra white spaces to one white space?
e.g.

from

foo      bar  

to

foo bar 
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Navid Rahmani Avatar asked Jun 22 '11 15:06

Navid Rahmani


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1 Answers

The fastest way? Iterate over the string and build a second copy in a StringBuilder character by character, only copying one space for each group of spaces.

The easier to type Replace variants will create a bucket load of extra strings (or waste time building the regex DFA).

Edit with comparison results:

Using http://ideone.com/NV6EzU, with n=50 (had to reduce it on ideone because it took so long they had to kill my process), I get:

Regex: 7771ms.

Stringbuilder: 894ms.

Which is indeed as expected, Regex is horribly inefficient for something this simple.

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Blindy Avatar answered Oct 04 '22 04:10

Blindy