RE: [PHP] For the reg ex people

> I'm trying to replace all "-" with any whitespace on either side in a > string with a regular "-" with not whitespace. Something like this: > > "The news today is - something" would end up like > "The news today is-something" > > I don't know how to use regular expressions well enough to do that. > Could someone help me out? str_replace(' - ', '-', $string); Although rather fast, that won't accomodate multiple spaces, this one will: $string = preg_replace('/[[:space:]]+-[[:space:]]+/i', '-', $string); And this one will accomodate multiple spaces, plus the possibility of only one side having spaces: $string = preg_replace('/([[:space:]]+)?-([[:space:]]+)?/', '-', $string); -- Richard Heyes http://www.heyes-computing.net/scripts/ Plain text email only please!