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title: 'You can call `squish()` on Stringable instances to remove all unnecessary whitespaces'
tweet_id: '1512463789215477763'
thread_slug: weekly-thread-2022-14
author_username: mattkingshott
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created_at: 2022-04-08T16:14:02+00:00
slug: you-can-call-squish-on-stringable-instances-to-remove-all-unnecessary-whitespaces
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🔥 #Laravel Tip: Hot off the press, the latest release includes the ‘squish’ global helper method by @DwightConrad. It removes all extraneous white space from a string, including between words. It’s like ‘trim’ on steroids :)