Re: Re: split on whitespace, preserving whitespace...

The workstation I'm on is only running 4.0.4... perhaps it's time to upgrade. :) I'll try it again. On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:30:18 -0400 "Jack Dempsey" wrote: > Actually, it does. I just ran it again with that exact code. What > version of php are you running? > Here's a direct copy/paste of what I get: > > <code> > <? > $text = "This contans white space ."; > $matches = preg_split("/(\s+)/",$text,-1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); > echo "<pre>[$text]<br>[". > implode('',$matches)."]</pre>"; > ?> > </code> > > <ouput> > <pre>[This contans white space .]<br>[This contans white space > .]</pre> > </output> > > Are you running php >= 4.0.5? > > jack > -----Original Message----- > From: Garth Dahlstrom [mailto:garth@utmail.to] > Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:06 AM > To: dabigdemp@hotmail.com > Cc: php-general@lists.php.net; james@towntalk.co.uk > Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: split on whitespace, preserving whitespace... > > On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:00 -0400 "Jack Dempsey" wrote: > > > > > $text = "This contans white space ."; > > $matches = preg_split("/(\s+)/",$text,-1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE); > > echo implode('',$matches); > > Nope that doesn't do it. > here's the test: > echo "<pre>[$text]<br>[". > implode('',$matches)."]</pre>"; > > here's the output: > [This contans white space .] > [Thiscontanswhitespace.] > > If it were working the two lines should be identical. > > > Northern.CA ===-- > http://www.northern.ca > Canada's Search Engine > > > -----Original Message----- > > mmm... yeah... That's what I had before > > (acutally I was using the alias split)... > > it does NOT however preserve the areas > > of white space. > > > > Instead the target of: > > > > $wordsarr = ('This',' ','contans',' > > > > ','white',' ','space',' > > ','.') > > > > You get: > > > > $wordsarr = > > > > ('This','','contans','','white','space','','.') > > > > which has totally destroyed the whitespace I'm trying to > > keep intacted. > > > > > -- > 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 > Northern.CA ===-- http://www.northern.ca Canada's Search Engine