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Remove Extra Spaces

Clean doubled spaces, pasted tabs, and uneven indentation inside ordinary prose. Each line is processed separately so meaningful line breaks remain visible.

Built & reviewed by GlyphSift Editorial · Last reviewed · Verified by 63 automated tests

Index state
eligible
Reviewed
2026-08-24
Input limit
5,000 graphemes
34 graphemes34 code points34 bytes
Live result

Remove Extra Spaces

This text has uneven spacing.

Good fit

Use this tool when

  • Copied prose contains doubled or tab-sized gaps.
  • You want consistent single spaces within each line.
  • Line breaks should remain intact.

Keep the original

Avoid it when

  • Spacing aligns plain-text tables or code.
  • Tabs encode nesting or indentation.
  • Whitespace is significant to a file format.
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Reviewed truth vectors

Examples that expose the edge cases

Inputone two
Outputone two

Repeated spaces collapse to one.

Inputa b
Outputa b

Tabs become a single space.

Input A B
OutputA B

Each line is trimmed independently.

02

Transparent implementation

How it works

  1. 01

    Normalize line endings.

  2. 02

    Collapse horizontal whitespace within each line.

  3. 03

    Trim the start and end of every line while keeping the breaks.

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Known limitations

What the result cannot promise

Intentional indentation is removed.

Non-breaking spaces may require a separate Unicode inspection.

The tool does not rewrite punctuation or grammar.

04

Questions before copying

Frequently asked questions

Are new lines preserved?

Yes. The default action processes each line independently.

Does it remove tabs?

Runs of tabs and ordinary horizontal spaces become one normal space.

Can it clean a code block?

It can, but should not—indentation is meaningful in many languages.

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Experience, expertise & trust

How we verify this tool

GlyphSift Editorial — Text-engine authors & reviewers

The GlyphSift Editorial team designs the deterministic text engine, writes each tool's examples against real Unicode edge cases, and reviews every claim before a page becomes eligible for indexing. We build and test the software we document; we do not outsource the copy to generic content mills.

Each tool page is reviewed against the same six input classes the engine is tested with — ASCII, emoji, combining marks, non-Latin scripts, empty input, and 5,000-grapheme input — and cannot become eligible if it is only a parameter variation of another page.

Automated evidence

  • Tool-contract & coverage suite30 deterministic cases

    tests/tools-30.test.mjs mirrors the ToolRunner dispatch and asserts every registered engineId returns the contracted output shape, plus a coverage guard so no tool silently drops characters.

    Run in: node --test after a production build (vinext build)
  • Rendered-HTML suite12 deterministic cases

    tests/rendered-html.test.mjs renders the deployed server bundle and asserts the Unicode-version manifest and each wave's tool markup are present in the server-rendered HTML.

    Run in: node --test against the built dist/server bundle
  • Transform & cleanup suite21 deterministic cases

    tests/transform-cleanup.test.mjs exercises each deterministic cleanup and transform action against whitespace, duplicate, ordering, casing, and HTML-to-text edge cases.

    Run in: node --test, no network, no randomness

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