Replace all whitespace characters

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You want \s

Matches a single white space character, including space, tab, form feed, line feed.

Equivalent to

[ \f\n\r\t\v\u00a0\u1680\u2000-\u200a\u2028\u2029\u202f\u205f\u3000\ufeff]

in Firefox and [ \f\n\r\t\v] in IE.

str = str.replace(/\s/g, "X");

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\s is a meta character that covers all white space. You don't need to make it case-insensitive — white space doesn't have case.

str.replace(/\s/g, "X")

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We can also use this if we want to change all multiple joined blank spaces with a single character:

str.replace(/\s+/g,'X');

Explanation

/ \s+ / g

\s+ matches any whitespace character (equal to [\r\n\t\f\v ])
+ Quantifier — Matches between one and unlimited times, as many times as possible, giving back as needed (greedy)

Global pattern flags
- g modifier: global. All matches (don't return after first match)

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