====================================================== Alice Wei MIS 2009 School of Library and Information Science Indiana University Bloomington ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx ________________________________________ From: Peter Ford [pete@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, July 18, 2008 11:02 AM To: php-general@xxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: Re: Trailing Spaces Problem Thiago H. Pojda wrote: > On Fri, Jul 18, 2008 at 11:41 AM, Wei, Alice J. <ajwei@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > >> Hi, > > > >> Is there some way that I can have it so that it can print out: >> >> 1: 1 2:0 3: 70.208 4. 61.613 5. 1.424 >> >> I tried using \s for trailing spaces, but It all gave me output of >> everything in the single line. >> Have I missed something here? >> > > You're just removing every space there is, letting none for values > separation. > > Just replace every "\s\s" with "\s" until there's no more "\s\s". > > Probably some regex would be better, but that's not my area :) > > Regards, > Thiago > > >> Thanks in advance. >> >> Alice You probably need to use a regexp, so you can accomodate the different types of white space: <?php $string="1 0 70.208 61.613 1.424 3.689 61.404 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000 0.000"; $data = preg_split('/\s+/',$string); echo "1: ". $data[0] . " 2: " . $data[1] . " 3: " . $data[2] . " 4: " . $data[3] . " 5: " . $data[4] ?> Does that work for you? Thanks, this worked perfectly! -- Peter Ford phone: 01580 893333 Developer fax: 01580 893399 Justcroft International Ltd., Staplehurst, Kent -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php