Posted by Andrew @ Rockface on 10/03/05 13:48

www.douglassdavis.com wrote:
> lets say I have a line of text with multiple spaces between each word..
> I am not sure how many spaces. I would like to take the line of text,
> and change it to put only one space between the words.

If you just want to replace multiple blanks between words try:
$string = preg_replace("/\s+/", " ", $string);

> So, my idea was to split it on the spaces, then implode it with one
> space between each word.
>
> But, this doesn't work:
>
> preg_split("/\\s*/","test test test test")

Replace * with +

> I would think that the regular expression would match multiple spaces,
> and split on that, but instead it just breaks apart each character of
> the string.
>
> How can I break it apart so I get something like:
>
> Array (
> [0] => "test",
> [1] => "test",
> [2] => "test"
> )

$array = preg_split("/\s+/",$string);

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Andrew @ Rockface
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