Well, in short, you want to replace \n\n\n or \n\n\n\n with \n\n.
This can be done cleaverly with a regexp (not my expertise at all, but you
want to replace 3 or more occurences of \n in a row with \n\n.
Otherwise, a simple str_replace() will do it an okay job.
something like:
<?
$str = "something\n\nwith\n\ntoo\n\n\nmany\n\n\n\nline\nbreaks";
$str = str_replace('\n\n\n','\n\n',$str) // change three enters to two
$str = str_replace('\n\n\n\n','\n\n',$str) // change four enters to two
?>
Untested of course.
Like I said, a regexp would be better here.
Justin French
on 24/06/02 6:51 PM, Jason Caldwell ([EMAIL PROTECTED]) wrote:
> Is there an elegant way to remove excess blank lines from my form data?
>
> For example; if someone enters the following text and then press' the
> Submit button:
>
> ----
> This is a some text
>
>
> This is more text, and yet even more....
> ----
>
> What I want to do is remove the excess white space and make it look like
> this?
>
> ----
> This is a some text
>
> This is more text, and yet even more....
> ----
>
> My users may press <enter> too many times and I want to ensure clean text
> and formatting.
>
> Thanks.
> Jason
>
>
>
>
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