Re: Another preg question

Thanks for the feedback. Here was my problem; I misunderstood how the "+" worked. It only applies to the last "\n", not both "n\n". Hans Juergen Von Lengerke wrote:

From: Al <news@ridersite.org> $text= preg_replace("/\n\n+/", "\n\n", $text); // remove excess This doesn't seem to do anything.

Strange, your code works for me: hj@spirit:~ > cat foo.php <?php $text = "foo\n\n\n\n\nbar"; echo "before:\n===\n$text\n===\n\n"; $text = preg_replace("/\n\n+/", "\n\n", $text); echo "after:\n===\n$text\n===\n\n"; ?> hj@spirit:~ > php ./foo.php before: === foo bar === after: === foo bar === hj@spirit:~ > php -v PHP 4.3.4 (cli) (built: Feb 12 2004 17:42:41) Copyright (c) 1997-2003 The PHP Group Zend Engine v1.3.0, Copyright (c) 1998-2003 Zend Technologies hj@spirit:~ >