$team_name=" BV Stars Black ";
wsstrip($team_name);
function wsstrip(&$str)
{
$str=ereg_replace (' +', ' ', trim($str));
$str=ereg_replace("[\r\t\n]","",$str);
}echo $team_name; // Would produce the following line
BV Stars Black
Thank you all for helping on this. I found the answer by "David Gillies" at: http://us4.php.net/trim
Another question is this. The "&" in wsstrip(&$str). Does that mean that it takes the input to the function as Global and changes it Globally? I am assuming that because that is what the whole function seems to do for me.
Thanks again everybody Steve
At 11:49 AM 7/2/2003 -0500, you wrote:
I am not sure how to go about this and hope that someone can help here. I have a variable like the following:
$team_name="BV Stars Black";
it has two spaces between the words Stars and Black. What I am trying to do is to take this variable, check for and strip the following:
1. Leading spaces
2. Ending spaces
3. Double (or more) spaces in the variable leaving only one space between words.
Does php have any built in function that I can not find that will do this?
Thank You in Advance Steve
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