Re: [DONE] Substr by words

On Sun, October 30, 2005 6:04 am, Marcus Bointon wrote: > On 29 Oct 2005, at 20:41, Richard Lynch wrote: > >> It was probably replacing *TWO* spaces with one. >> >> If so, it should really be in a while loop, because there could be 3 >> or more spaces in a row, and if the goal is only single-spaced >> words... > > I can hardly think of a better application for a regex: > > $text = preg_replace('/ */', ' ', $text); Sure. Now you wanna go re-write all my code that pre-dates preg_* functions being added to PHP? :-) Un-paid? :-) :-) :-) Cuz I probably still do have a while(ststr(...)) str_replace() loop or two in there somewhere from PHP3.0rc2 days... Yes, ereg_* were in then. But they were kinda slow and I didn't undestand Regex then. Hell, I barely understand it now, really. There's a certain point where the Regex expression reaches a level of complexity that I'm just not willing to accept in my code and call it "maintainable" / */ is fine, of course. But there's lots of times when I know there must be a one-line regex to replace 10 lines of code, but I don't WANT to use it because I'll stumble over that one-line Regex every time I have to change it. -- Like Music? http://l-i-e.com/artists.htm