|  | Posted by "php-mail" on 06/13/17 11:37 
I tested this with
 $t = "string          string";
 preg_replace('/\s/', '', $t);
 echo $t;
 
 And the replace left a space... so then I tried this
 
 $t = "string          string";
 $t = preg_replace('/\s/', '', $t);
 echo $t;
 
 And the output was spaceless (spaced out?)... maybe worth a try?
 
 HTH
 
 Dan
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 -----Original Message-----
 From: Al [mailto:news@ridersite.org]
 Sent: 17 January 2006 22:45
 To: php-general@lists.php.net
 Subject: Re: [PHP] Help with regular expressions
 
 John Nichel wrote:
 > Carl Furst wrote:
 >
 >> Ok I am so stumped.. I'm doing something stupid and I can't figure it
 >> out..
 >>
 >> Here's the code:
 >>
 >> <?php
 >>
 >> $eml = 'hiddenemailadddress@hiddendomain.net                        ceo';
 >> if (strpos($eml, ' ')) echo "yep, there are spaces\n"; //does strpos
 >> see the
 >> spaces?
 >> echo preg_replace('/\s/', '',  $eml); //WTF? Preg_replace does not?
 >> echo "$eml\n";
 >>
 >>
 >> ?>
 >>
 >> As you can see there are a bunch of spaces in that email address. I'm
 >> trying
 >> to use preg_replace to get rid of them. Strpos sees the spaces and the
 >> first
 >> echo statement is executed. The second echo prints nothing and the third
 >> prints the original $eml with nothing substituted.
 >>
 >> Can anyone see why the perl reg isn't seeing the spaces?
 >>
 >> Carl
 >>
 >
 > Working fine on my end (copy/pasted your code)
 >
 
 
 $eml= trim($eml);
 
 $pattern= "%\s%";			//I use % as delimiters, more
 obvious for me when debugging
 
 if(preg_match($pattern, $eml) echo "yep, there are spaces\n";
 
 preg_replace($pattern, '', $eml); echo "works now\n";
 
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