James Keeline wrote:
> --- Wade Smart <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
>
>> A piece of hardware puts out a formatted report daily that I need to
>> extract the data from. There are 13 columns of information. The data in
>> the columns are from 1 to 5 possibly 6 places with no 0's as place holders.
>>
>> What I need to do is remove all the spaces except 1 between all the
>> columns.
>>
>> I thought about doing something like:
>>
>>
>> do{ $pos_start = $pos_start + 1; }
>> while ( !chr(32);
>>
>> But that doesnt work.
>>
>> Would someone give me a suggestion.
>>
>> Wade
>
> You are probably seeking a regular expression to search for one or more spaces
> and replace them with a single space. The search pattern would be something
> like:
>
> \s+
>
> The \s includes several whitespace characters (including tabs) so you might
> care to code the space specifically. Then replace it with the space
> character.
>
> $input = "Text more text";
> $output = preg_replace("/\s+/", " ", $input);
>
> There is some overhead in using the regular expression engine but it is quite
> flexible for this application.
>
> James
02052008 1932 GMT-6
Ok. That was WAY easier than what I was trying to do. I really must
learn reg exp in detail.
Thanks.
wade
