Quick String Query...

[Jamie Wright]

I have been using PHP for a while now, although my knowledge of the inbuilt
functions is pretty lacking. I am trying to remove a 'space' from the middle
of a string. I reckon I could split the string at teh space, trim each
string then join them, but this seems a little long winded. Is there a
command to remove certain charachters? Or even better white space? I've
searched the PHP manual with little luck.

Any help would be appreciated.

Jamie

[Jason Dumler]

Re: Quick String Query...

Jamie,

Try the "str_replac e" or "preg_repla ce" functions.

str_replace is a straight forward string replacement function, while
preg_replace lets you use perl regular expressions to replace strings
inside other strings.

Jason

Jamie Wright wrote:[color=blue]
> I have been using PHP for a while now, although my knowledge of the inbuilt
> functions is pretty lacking. I am trying to remove a 'space' from the middle
> of a string. I reckon I could split the string at teh space, trim each
> string then join them, but this seems a little long winded. Is there a
> command to remove certain charachters? Or even better white space? I've
> searched the PHP manual with little luck.
>
> Any help would be appreciated.
>
> Jamie
>
>[/color]

[James Sleeman]

Re: Quick String Query...

Jamie Wright wrote:
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> I have been using PHP for a while now, although my knowledge of the
> inbuilt functions is pretty lacking. I am trying to remove a 'space' from
> the middle of a string. I reckon I could split the string at teh space,[/color]

$string = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $string);

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[James Sleeman]

Re: Quick String Query...

Jamie Wright wrote:
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>> $string = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $string);[/color]
>
> Cheers for that. You wouldn't care to explain the /\s+/ would you? Does
> this mean 'space'?[/color]

Yes, that is a regular expression, \s means whitespace and + means one or
more, so the expression matches one or more whitespace characters.

Regular Expression Syntax :

http://nz.php.net/manual/en/pcre.pattern.syntax.php

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