How do you find and clean up extra whitespace in large text files or codebases?

[hiwesuc]

Hello everyone.

I am working on a project with thousands of lines of text and code, and I keep running into issues with trailing spaces, extra tabs, and inconsistent indentation. Manually scanning for these problems is slow and error prone, especially across multiple files.

I have tried using basic find and replace, but it does not catch everything, like mixed tabs and spaces or hidden characters at line ends.

Are there any reliable whitespace finder tools, extensions, or command line utilities that can scan, highlight, and fix these issues automatically?

I would appreciate recommendations for both editor plugins and standalone tools that work well with large projects.

 

[hiwesuc]

Hello everyone.

I am working on a project with thousands of lines of text and code, and I keep running into issues with trailing spaces, extra tabs, and inconsistent indentation. Manually scanning for these problems is slow and error prone, especially across multiple files.

I have tried using basic find and replace, but it does not catch everything, like mixed tabs and spaces or hidden characters at line ends.

Are there any reliable whitespace finder tools, extensions, or command line utilities that can scan, highlight, and fix these issues automatically?

I would appreciate recommendations for both editor plugins and standalone tools that work well with large projects.

thanks in advance for any help