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Strings & Text easy

Strip and Collapse Whitespace

Write a function that strips leading/trailing whitespace and collapses inner runs of whitespace to single spaces.

strings whitespace normalization

+10 pts 15m

Strings & Text easy

Replace multiple spaces

Implement a function that replaces every sequence of spaces with a single space.

strings whitespace normalization

+8 pts 10m

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Strip and Collapse Whitespace

Replace multiple spaces

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