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sublimino on 09/02/08


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all spaces become single spaces regex

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  1. $test = '23       124 124     4    2  21 4  142    lajdlkajsldkajs                              jasd    124  what   great  data t a  a';
  2. $test = preg_replace( '([\ ])', ' ', $test );
  3. echo $test;

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Posted By: Scooter on September 7, 2008

That pattern also catches dollar signs, hyphens, and round brackets, none of which are whitespace. A better pattern would be '[\s]{2,}'.

Posted By: sublimino on September 23, 2008

I'm not sure if '[\s]{2,}' is php compatible - the above snippet has been amended slightly

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