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collapseSpaces

Language/Type: Java file processing Scanner
Author: Kimberly Todd (on 2019/09/19)

Write a static method named collapseSpaces that accepts a Scanner representing a file as a parameter and writes that file's text to the console, with multiple spaces or tabs reduced to single spaces between words that appear on the same line. For example, if a Scanner variable named input is reading an input file containing the following text: 

four      score   and

seven               years ago         our
            
fathers brought             forth
    on this          continent
a         new
            
nation

then the call collapseSpaces(input); should produce the following output: 

four score and
            
seven years ago our
            
fathers brought forth
on this continent
a new
            
nation

Each word is to appear on the same line in output as it appears in the file. Notice that lines can be blank.

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This is a method problem. Write a Java method as described. Do not write a complete program or class; just the method(s) above.

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