Whitespace Remover

In short Removing all whitespace strips every space, tab and line break, leaving one continuous string. It is a blunt operation with a narrow set of real uses: comparing two texts while ignoring formatting differences, preparing a string for a system that cannot accept spaces, and counting the characters that are actually content. For anything involving readable text this is not what you want — the remove-extra-spaces tool collapses runs while keeping the text readable, and remove-line-breaks joins lines while keeping words apart. Those two cover almost every real case. Where this one earns its place is checking whether two blocks of text differ in substance or only in layout. Strip the whitespace from both and compare: if the results match, the only difference was formatting. That is a faster answer than reading a diff when someone has reindented a file or a CMS has reflowed a paragraph. Note that it also joins words that were separated only by a line break, so the result is rarely readable and is not meant to be.