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rafaelmt on 01/29/08

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Remove excess whitespaces from string / Remove espaços em excesso de uma string

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Remove excess whitespaces from string Remove espaços em branco em excesso de uma string

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function stripExcessSpaces($str)
{
    return preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $str);
}
 
// ex.:
$string = 'String   with    too many    whitespaces.';
echo '<pre>'.$string."
".stripExcessSpaces($string).'</pre>';

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Posted By: tobiwan on January 31, 2008

echo '<pre>'.$string."\r\n".stripExcessSpaces($string).'</pre>';

Posted By: rafaelmt on February 5, 2008

thanks for the correction, tobiwan

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