Posted by shimmyshack on 06/22/07 14:44

On Jun 22, 3:27 pm, aqua...@cox.net wrote:
> I am parsing some text files that have all the spacing between words
> doubled. The space between characters is one instead of zero, and the
> space between words is two instead of one.
>
> I am trying to create a regular expression that replaces the single
> space between the characters in the words with no space. Something
> like preg_replace('/.\s.','',$string).
>
> Obviously, the above code doesn't do the trick, but that is the idea.
>
> Can someone please show me the way? Thank you.

you mean
$strText = preg_replace('/\s\s+/', ' ', $strText);
which makes all multiple spaces into a single space, leaving those
with just one untouched for speed
or
$strText = str_replace( ' ',' ',$strText );
which converts doubles to singles, str_replace is fastest.

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