Consecutive Space Finder
Highlight every run of two or more consecutive spaces in text, without altering the text at all, with a run count.
Consecutive-Space Runs Found
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Paste some text to see consecutive spaces highlighted here.
How to Use the Consecutive Space Finder
Paste your text into the box, and the tool scans it for every run of two or more consecutive space characters. Your full text is rendered back exactly as entered on the right, with each run of extra spaces given a colored highlight so you can see precisely where they occur — nothing in the text is changed. A count shows how many such runs were found in total.
Example
Pasting "This has some extra spaces" highlights three separate runs (two, three, and four spaces in a row) and reports "3 consecutive-space runs found," while the single space before "spaces" is left unhighlighted.
Common Use Cases
- Reviewing exactly where extra spacing issues occur in a document before cleaning it up.
- Auditing pasted content from a PDF, email, or webpage for messy double-spacing.
- Spot-checking formatting consistency in code, data files, or copy-editing drafts.
FAQs
- How is this different from the Whitespace Cleaner? The Whitespace Cleaner REMOVES extra whitespace automatically, collapsing multiple spaces down to one. This tool only visually flags where consecutive spaces occur, leaving the text completely unchanged, so you can review it first before deciding whether to clean it.
- Does this catch tabs or line breaks too? No — it specifically looks for runs of two or more regular space characters; tabs and line breaks are treated as separate characters and aren't flagged by this tool.
- Does a single space between words get highlighted? No — only runs of two or more consecutive spaces are highlighted; normal single-space word spacing is left alone.