>>> 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 spaces inside")?>
$ php -f test.php
A string with many spaces inside
Cheers,
Alex
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