Posted by aquaren on 06/22/07 14:50

On Jun 22, 9:44 am, shimmyshack <matt.fa...@gmail.com> wrote:
> 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.

not quite. i just want to convert a single space into no space.
for example 't h e' would become 'the'.

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