I have a string that looks like that:

"\n My name is John\n and I like to go.\n blahblahblah.\n \n\n ".

Note - In this string example, there are 5 white-spaces after the new line character, but it can be any number of white-spaces after.

I would like to replace those "\n " substrings with just one space using a regex. I've been trying numerous combinations of regex and nothing seems to work right.

On of the regex's I found was theString = string.replace(theString, '/\r?\n|\r/g', ' ') But it didn't work also.

I'm using python 2.7

It doesn't use regex, however you can do this:

>>> s = "\n      My name is John\n      and I like to go.\n      blahblahblah.\n         \n\n      "
>>> " ".join(s.split())
'My name is John and I like to go. blahblahblah.'