RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Ken
At 02:43 PM 12/5/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: $t = preg_replace('/\s+/',' ',$text); One more thing: How do I replace with newline instead of a space? I read through the manuals but couldn't grasp how to do this. \n didn't cut it. And, more advanced - The above replaces any groups of 2 or

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
.its worth the money jack -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:08 AM To: Jack Dempsey; liljim; PHP list Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 02:43 PM 12/5/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 11:41 AM 12/6/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: using \n as your replacement text will do ithowever, if you want a newline in the html, then you'll want br... Using \n (either in single or double quotes) resulted in actual

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Ken
OK, this time the \n worked. The only thing I changed was using / delimiters instead of | delimiters in the search string. No idea if/why that would affect anything in the replacement string. Anyway, I finally came up with exactly what I wanted: preg_replace(array(/\s*\n+\s*/, /[ ]+/),

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:13 PM To: Jack Dempsey; PHP list Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output OK, this time the \n worked. The only thing I changed was using / delimiters instead of | delimiters in the search string. No idea if/why that would affect

Re: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread liljim
Hello, The example Jack gave you will clear up spaces well, though to get both newlines and spaces into one: $input = preg_replace(/([ ]|\n){1,}/, \\1, $input); James Jack Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... $text = preg_replace('|\s+|','

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread Jack Dempsey
help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output Hello, The example Jack gave you will clear up spaces well, though to get both newlines and spaces into one: $input = preg_replace(/([ ]|\n){1,}/, \\1, $input); James Jack Dempsey [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]"

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread Jack Dempsey
Dempsey Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 10:57 AM 12/5/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: a space (\s is from perl) Ah, OK, yours doesn't deal with newlines. From list member James, a solution that does: - From: liljim [EMAIL PROTECTED] The example

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-04 Thread Jack Dempsey
$text = preg_replace('|\s+|',' ',$text); -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:06 AM To: PHP list Subject: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output I want to remove all superfluous blank spaces before I