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Collapse Extra Spaces In Place

Bloomberg LP● EasyNEW GRADPHONE SCREEN

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Problem statement

Remove leading and trailing ASCII spaces from text and replace every nonempty internal run of spaces with one space. Return the normalized string.

Function

collapseSpaces(text: String) → String

Examples

Example 1

text = "hello   world  there"return = "hello world there"

Each internal run collapses to one space.

Constraints

0 <= text.length <= 10^5.