RE: [PHP] remove whitespace

I don't know of any function, but this should do the trick $string = preg_replace("/[\w]+/i", " ", $string); > -----Original Message----- > From: David Otton [mailto:djo@jawbone.freeserve.co.uk] > Sent: Wednesday, 8 November 2000 10:47 > To: php-general@lists.php.net > Subject: [PHP] remove whitespace > > > Hi - I suspect there is a function to do this, but I can't find it. > > I want to remove extraneous whitespace-like characters from a string, > so > > "this is\n a \t string with \nweird spacing" > > becomes > > "this is a string with weird spacing" > > best I can come up with is to use str_replace() to turn all the > unwanted chars into plain " "s, then explode() and implode() the > string. > > Is there a faster way? > > > -- > PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) > To unsubscribe, e-mail: php-general-unsubscribe@lists.php.net > For additional commands, e-mail: php-general-help@lists.php.net > To contact the list administrators, e-mail: > php-list-admin@lists.php.net > >