Re: String formatting

On Fri, 2004-08-06 at 13:24, Jed R. Brubaker wrote: > Hey all! Glad you are here. > > I have a question that is confusing me a bit. I am trying to output a string > that is pulled from a database that I don't have control over. > > Everything is great, except that the string needs to be all on one line with > no line breaks (for Javascript's sake). Is there a function in PHP to make > sure that output is on one line, regardless of the content of the line? > > Below are some examples of the data. > Thanks in advance! > > MySQL (text) > ---------------------- > Here is some text, and here is the MySQL field is a line break. > > Here is more text that is still part of the text above. > ---------------------- > > > Needed output (w/ no whitespace) > ---------------------- > Here is some text, and here is the MySQL field is a line break. Here is more > text that is still part of the text above. > ---------------------- This usually works of for me: $text = ereg_replace( '[[:space:]]+', ' ', $text ); Cheers, Rob. -- .------------------------------------------------------------. | InterJinn Application Framework - http://www.interjinn.com | :------------------------------------------------------------: | An application and templating framework for PHP. Boasting | | a powerful, scalable system for accessing system services | | such as forms, properties, sessions, and caches. InterJinn | | also provides an extremely flexible architecture for | | creating re-usable components quickly and easily. | `------------------------------------------------------------'