[PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin Murphy 
This works, but I was wondering if this was the best way to  
accomplish this or not. I'm trying to remove any extra spaces (not  
whitespace like carriage returns) from the middle of a string  
mainly for times where people put extra spaces after periods in  
paragraph.


while(preg_match('/  /',$data))
{   $data = str_replace(  , ,$data);}

Is there a better way to accomplish this same task? (PHP 4.x). Thanks.


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Re: [PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Alexandru E. Ungur 
 sender: Kevin Murphy date: Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700 EOQ
 This works, but I was wondering if this was the best way to  
 accomplish this or not. I'm trying to remove any extra spaces (not  
 whitespace like carriage returns) from the middle of a string  
 mainly for times where people put extra spaces after periods in  
 paragraph.
 
   while(preg_match('/  /',$data))
   {   $data = str_replace(  , ,$data);}
 
 Is there a better way to accomplish this same task? (PHP 4.x). Thanks.
Sure:

$ cat test.php 
?=ereg_replace(' {2,}', ' ', A string   with   many spacesinside)?

$ php -f test.php 
A string with many spaces inside


Cheers,
Alex

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Re: [PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Lynch 
If you have this, it's better:
$data = preg_replace(/  /, $data);
You may want to consider /\\s+/ if you want newlines to be collapsed
in as well.

If preg_replace is not in your PHP, so you gotta use str_replace, then
strstr is better to find the '  ' because it's probably slightly
faster than preg_match()

I suspect preg_replace() is available everywhere preg_match() is
available, but will not swear to it.

On Tue, October 3, 2006 1:08 pm, Kevin Murphy wrote:
 This works, but I was wondering if this was the best way to
 accomplish this or not. I'm trying to remove any extra spaces (not
 whitespace like carriage returns) from the middle of a string
 mainly for times where people put extra spaces after periods in
 paragraph.

   while(preg_match('/  /',$data))
   {   $data = str_replace(  , ,$data);}

 Is there a better way to accomplish this same task? (PHP 4.x). Thanks.


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 Webmaster: Information and Marketing Services
 Western Nevada Community College
 www.wncc.edu
 775-445-3326





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Re: [PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Richard Lynch 
On Tue, October 3, 2006 1:47 pm, Richard Lynch wrote:
 If you have this, it's better:
 $data = preg_replace(/  /, $data);

D'oh!

$data = preg_replace(/  /,  , $data);

Sorry!



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Re: [PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Robert Cummings 
On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:17 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:
 On Tue, October 3, 2006 1:47 pm, Richard Lynch wrote:
  If you have this, it's better:
  $data = preg_replace(/  /, $data);
 
 D'oh!
 
 $data = preg_replace(/  /,  , $data);

Doesn't work on 3+ spaces in a row ;)

$data = preg_replace(/ +/,  , $data);

Cheers,
Rob.
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Re: [PHP] Remove Spaces from Middle of String

2006-10-03 Thread Kevin Murphy 

Works perfect! Thanks.

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On Oct 3, 2006, at 3:30 PM, Robert Cummings wrote:


On Tue, 2006-10-03 at 15:17 -0500, Richard Lynch wrote:

On Tue, October 3, 2006 1:47 pm, Richard Lynch wrote:

If you have this, it's better:
$data = preg_replace(/  /, $data);


D'oh!

$data = preg_replace(/  /,  , $data);


Doesn't work on 3+ spaces in a row ;)

$data = preg_replace(/ +/,  , $data);

Cheers,
Rob.
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