Given a string, remove all leading and trailing spaces and collapse any sequence of consecutive spaces between words into a single space. Return an empty string if the input is null or blank.

Examples:

Input: text = ' hello world ' Output: 'hello world' Explanation: Leading and trailing spaces removed, multiple spaces between words collapsed Input: text = 'apex is fun' Output: 'apex is fun' Explanation: Multiple spaces between words reduced to single spaces Input: text = ' salesforce ' Output: 'salesforce' Explanation: Only leading and trailing spaces to remove Input: text = '' Output: '' Explanation: Blank input returns empty string Input: text = 'single' Output: 'single' Explanation: No extra spaces, return as-is
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