public static String EliminateWhiteSpace(String content)
{
// multiple spaces are reduced to one,
// newlines are treated as spaces,
// tabs, carriage returns are ignored.
StringBuilder buf = new StringBuilder();
int len = content.Length;
char character;
bool newline = false;
for (int i = 0; i < len; i++) {
switch (character = content[i]) {
case ' ':
if (!newline) {
buf.Append(character);
}
break;
case '\n':
if (i > 0) {
newline = true;
buf.Append(' ');
}
break;
case '\r':
break;
case '\t':
break;
default:
newline = false;
buf.Append(character);
break;
}
}
return buf.ToString();
}