CodingEasycod-g1398

Subject StringsLevel Entry–Mid~12 minCommon in Algorithms & data structures interviewsIndustries Software development

Question

Text pasted into a form arrives with messy whitespace. Normalize it: replace every run of spaces, tabs, and newlines with a single space, and remove leading and trailing whitespace entirely. All other characters are unchanged. For example, ' hello\t\tworld \n twice ' becomes 'hello world twice'.

Implement

normalize_spaces(text: str) → str

Examples

in[" hello\t\tworld \n twice "]out"hello world twice"

What a strong answer looks like

State your approach and its time/space complexity out loud before you optimize. Handle the edge cases (empty input, duplicates, overflow), and say why you chose this over the brute force. Green tests are the floor, not the grade.

Learn the concepts

Vibe coding: describe the solution in plain language (or narrate it) and the coach grades your approach. Generating runnable code from your description is coming next.

Run or narrate your approach, then ask the coach.