>>> sender: "Kevin Murphy" date: "Tue, Oct 03, 2006 at 11:08:23AM -0700" <<<EOQ > This works, but I was wondering if this was the best way to > accomplish this or not. I'm trying to remove any extra spaces (not > whitespace like carriage returns) from the middle of a string.... > mainly for times where people put extra spaces after periods in > paragraph. > > while(preg_match('/ /',$data)) > { $data = str_replace(" "," ",$data); } > > Is there a better way to accomplish this same task? (PHP 4.x). Thanks. Sure: $ cat test.php <?=ereg_replace(' {2,}', ' ', "A string with many spaces inside")?> $ php -f test.php A string with many spaces inside Cheers, Alex -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php