Re: Getting rid of extra lines

Miller, Terion wrote: > > > On 7/29/09 2:19 PM, "Jim Lucas" <lists@cmsws.com> wrote: > > $clean = preg_replace('|\s+|', ' ', $input); > > Hi Jim, > The extra whitespace lines are in the data store, coming from it I'm going to try your > method but is there a way to not have mySQL store it with so many lines (this is data being screen > scraped and put in the db) > My code was at the beginning of this post of how I was inserting it. > > Thanks > And Chocolate huh.... > Terion > If the method that I give you works on the out from the db to the browser, the should be no reason you cannot adapt whatever script you are using for scrapping to use this function when it inserts the data into the db. Jim