Removing spaces

Dave Brown · October 21st, 2005, 10:50 AM

I'd like to remove spaces from a text string. I know how to do it the old-fashioned way, but I thought I'd ask if there wasn't a PHP function something akin to strstripspaces($string)that would make life easier.

Thanks!

anshul · October 27th, 2005, 05:26 AM

See this simple example:

Code:

<?php
$data0 = "Sadly,  PHP  is  an   interpreted  slow language,    is  the  tool  of  freelancers,     not  corporates.";
// whitespaces of 2, 2, 2, 3, 2, 2, 4, 2, 2, 2, 2, 5, 2
$data1 = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', '', $data0); // remove all whitespace patterns
$data2 = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $data0); // replace all whitespace patterns with only one space

echo "<br>data0: " . $data0 . "<br>";
echo "<br>data1: " . $data1 . "<br>";
echo "<br>data2: " . $data2 . "<br>";
?>

`~@#\^%&*/\.<.\/-|+|_!:;..=?>
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Dave Brown · October 28th, 2005, 12:02 PM

See?

I could have spent a long, long time searching for preg_replace.

Thank you!