From bf8c320d66f85020a1067f1cd10903f9156bea33 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Chris Cameron <chris.cameron@wedoresi.com>
Date: Mon, 31 Aug 2020 13:37:38 -0400
Subject: [PATCH] feat: Added util methods for removing duplicate whitespace

---
 ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs | 15 +++++++++++++++
 ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs                 | 10 ++++++++++
 2 files changed, 25 insertions(+)

diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
index 0e263f3..b82d1d7 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/Extensions/StringExtensions.cs
@@ -157,6 +157,21 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils.Extensions
 			return new string(extends.Where(c => !char.IsWhiteSpace(c)).ToArray());
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Replaces spans of whitespace with a single space.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="extends"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		[PublicAPI]
+		[NotNull]
+		public static string RemoveDuplicateWhitespace([NotNull] this string extends)
+		{
+			if (extends == null)
+				throw new ArgumentNullException("extends");
+
+			return Regex.Replace(extends, @"\s+", " ");
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Removes all occurrences of the given string.
 		/// </summary>
diff --git a/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs b/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
index 43d7533..6ffd051 100644
--- a/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
+++ b/ICD.Common.Utils/StringUtils.cs
@@ -647,6 +647,16 @@ namespace ICD.Common.Utils
 			return text == null ? null : text.RemoveWhitespace();
 		}
 
+		/// <summary>
+		/// Replaces spans of whitespace with a single space.
+		/// </summary>
+		/// <param name="text"></param>
+		/// <returns></returns>
+		public static string RemoveDuplicateWhitespace(string text)
+		{
+			return text == null ? null : text.RemoveDuplicateWhitespace();
+		}
+
 		/// <summary>
 		/// Returns true if the string is entirely whitespace characters, or empty, or null.
 		/// </summary>