Replace white space with comma

Hi,

I have a textarea where I want the system to replace all the white spaces with a comma.

my code works if I hit the break between each input but if I have my text without hitting the break between each text
it will not replace the white spaces with a comma.

this is what I have:

           var str = $('#ItemList').val();

            str = $('#ItemList').val().replace(/(?:\r\n|\r|\n)/g, ',');
           
            var partsOfStr = str.split(', ');
       
            $('#ItemList').val(partsOfStr);

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Thank you for your help

Lulu

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lulu50

8/22/2022 - Mon

Eduard Ghergu

1/27/2020

Hi,

What about

str.replace( / +/g, ' ' );

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gr8gonzo

1/27/2020

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leakim971

1/27/2020

you must set the number of columns of your textarea : cols="21"
or any other number but it need to match with the number in the code

test page : https://jsfiddle.net/xg5Lstvu/

var textareaValue = $("#ItemList").val();
var numberOfTextareaChar = textareaValue.length;
var numberOfCharPerRow = 21;
var numberOfRow = parseInt(numberOfTextareaChar/numberOfCharPerRow);
var partsOfStr = [];
for(var i=0;i<numberOfTextareaChar;i+=numberOfCharPerRow) {
	partsOfStr.push(textareaValue.substring(i, i+numberOfCharPerRow));
}
partsOfStr = partsOfStr.join(", ")
// CHECKING :
alert(partsOfStr);

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kaufmed

1/27/2020

Add |\s to your pattern:

(?:\r\n|\r|\n|\s)

While I agree that this is the answer, it's redundant: \s includes \r and \n. A simple:

.replace(/\s+/g, ',')

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should suffice.

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rwheeler23

lulu50

1/28/2020

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gr8gonzo,

I added |\s to my pattern and it worked great!!!!

I want to thank you all for your help.

gr8gonzo you are the pro today!!!!

Thank you gr8gonzo!!!!!