Re: Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

One way to do it is: $NewString = ereg_replace('[[:space:]]+', ' ', $String); There are also ways to do it with preg functions that are slightly more efficient; see the pcre docs. And, the standard (AFAIK) reference book for regular expressions is O'Reilly's 'Mastering Regular Expressions'; a worthwhile purchase. -steve At 2:06 AM -0500 12/5/01, Ken wrote:

I want to remove all superfluous blank spaces before I sent my HTML output, to make the output smaller. So I'd like to take $input, replace any number of blank space or newlines that are consecutive and replace them with a single blank. I.e. I will list a blank space as b and a newline as n: If input is: bbbbbTEXTHEREbbbnnnbnMOREbEVENMORE Then output should be: bTEXTHEREbMOREbEVENMORE I imagine this would be handled by a simple regular expression call, but I'm no pro with them yet. Any help? Thanks, Ken kenzo@free-music.com

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