Re: Regex help needed...
| From: | Jesse Swensen | Date: | Mon, 12 Feb 2001 20:08:22 +0000 |
| Subject: | Re: Regex help needed... | ||
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on 2/12/01 1:01 PM, Jason Stechschulte at jpstech@unoh.edu wrote:
> On Mon, Feb 12, 2001 at 12:15:04PM -0500, Jesse Swensen wrote:
>> This should be a quick one, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around it.
>> All I need to do is replace leading or trailing spaces with underscores. If
>> there is spaces in between words, leave them alone.
>
> $fix = ereg_replace("(^ )|( $)", "_", $checkme);
This is very close. If the string, " Testing ", had multiple spaces, but
I wanted to convert each space to a "_", then what? I tried:
$fix = ereg_replace("(^ +)|( +$)", "_", $checkme);
and
$fix = ereg_replace("(^[ ]+)|([ ]+$)", "_", $checkme);
with no success.
Thanks for your help...
--
Jesse Swensen
swensenj@bellsouth.net