JS - non-destructible space transform & nbsp

Question

I am reading text from an HTML element and storing it in a JS array, but if the user places more than one empty space, it is converted to a character without splitting the space. Later, if I read the array, it produces "& nbsp" instead of empty space. How can I detect empty space?

&nbsp  //instead of an empty space

I tried replacing, but it does not work:

myText.replace(/( )*/g," ")

Answer 1

Regular expression notation table for spaces

\x20 – standard space ‘\s’
\xC2\xA0 – ‘ ’
\x0D -  ‘\r’
\x0A – new Line or ‘\n’
\x09 – tab or ‘\t’ 

JS table designation:

String.fromCharCode(160) -  

Now use it to replace all your characters, add more if you want to delete a new line or carriage return

var re = '/(\xC2\xA0/| )';
x = x.replace(re, ' ');

you can also use

var re = '/(\xC2\xA0/| )';
x = x.replace(re, String.fromCharCode(160));

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