Re: Quick hellp, How do I stip new lines?

Trim should do exactly what you're looking for without needing ereg_replace, etc. Trim trims all whitespace before the first non-whitespace character and after the last non-whitespace character. I've included an example and its output below. File: test.php <?php header("Content-type: text/plain"); $test_str = " This is my test str "; echo "'$test_str'\n\n"; $test_str = trim($test_str); echo "'$test_str'"; ?> Output: test.php ' This is my test str ' 'This is my test str' Note: The single quotes are included in the output to show where the spaces are. Hope this helps! --Toby jaskirat wrote: > > Since this thread is running I would like to know the gurus' opinons on the > similar following situation > > Suppose there is a variable like this > > $var = "This is a variable "; > > Now I want to strip off white spaces on the end without losing them in the > middle of the sentence .. > > I had figured that there is a no direct way of doing it and some thing like > this > works > $var = trim (ereg_replace(" ","",$var)); > > the first argument to ereg_replace is "two spaces" so that single spaces > between the words are not removed > then trim to remove any space on the end which may still remain. > > But I feel its still not a fool proof solution because there may be two > spaces in between words some where also > which will then be clubbed together. > > Any body has a better idea. > > Jaskirat > > At 09:51 PM 2/16/01 -0500, you wrote: > >> Trim() will in fact only strip whitespace from the beginning or end of > >> the string; if he has \n's anywhere in the middle of the string, trim > >> will do perform the desired operation. > > > >CORRECTION : "trim will not perform the desired operation" > > > ><snip> > > > >-- > >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 > >