It wouldn't get rid of surplus tabs and other whitespace.

Tabs were not mentioned,

Neither were spaces.

and I don't know what you mean by other white spaces, can you give me an example?

The common kinds of whitespace are spaces and tabs. In some contexts linebreaks might also be considered whitespace.

Actually, another objection to globally replacing " +" with " " is that if you had lines indented with spaces it would replace that indentation with a space, so

        indented line

would become

 indented line

Whether that's a problem or not depends on the context (and no context was provided in the original question, so it's hard to say whether it's a potential problem here or not).

-jwgh

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