how to remove carriage returns, newlines, spaces from a string

Question

how do I remove the spaces, carriage returns from in between < and >

**START BELOW THIS LINE***  </TestItem1Request>   <Username>admin</Username>   <Password>123abc..@!</Password>   <Item1>this is an item</Item1> </TestItem1Request>  **END HERE ** 

I want the string result to end up as the following...

</TestItem1Request><Username>admin</Username><Password>123abc..@!</Password><Item1>this is an item</Item1></TestItem1Request> 

How do I do this?

Answer 1

If this is valid XML you could use the SaveOptions.DisableFormatting enumeration:

string input = @"<TestItem1Request>   <Username>admin</Username>   <Password>123abc..@!</Password>   <Item1>this is an item</Item1> </TestItem1Request>";  string result = XElement.Parse(input).ToString(SaveOptions.DisableFormatting); Console.WriteLine(result);