Re: how to strip empty lines out of a txt using preg_replace()
| From: | Ashley Sheridan | Date: | Fri, 04 Sep 2009 13:35:27 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: how to strip empty lines out of a txt using preg_replace() | ||
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On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 15:28 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote:
> ok
> preg_replace( "/^\s*$/m", "", $somestring)
> does not take empty lines out
>
> "Ashley Sheridan" <ash@ashleysheridan.co.uk> wrote in message
> news:1252069539.24700.150.camel@localhost...
> > On Fri, 2009-09-04 at 14:58 +0200, Ralph Deffke wrote:
> > > Hi all, I'm a bit under stress, maybe somebody knows the regex on a
> snap.
> > > using PHP_EOL would be great.
> > >
> > > thanks
> > > ralph_deffke@yahoo.de
> > >
> > >
> > >
> > The regex that would match a line containing only whitespace would look
> > like this:
> >
> > ^\s*$
> >
> > Thanks,
> > Ash
> > http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk
> >
> >
> >
>
>
>
Are the lines actually whitespace, or are they actually <br/> tags that
are inserting lines to format the page for HTML display?
Thanks,
Ash
http://www.ashleysheridan.co.uk