On 7/29/09 2:19 PM, "Jim Lucas" <lists@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: $clean = preg_replace('|\s+|', ' ', $input); Hi Jim, The extra whitespace lines are in the data store, coming from it I'm going to try your method but is there a way to not have mySQL store it with so many lines (this is data being screen scraped and put in the db) My code was at the beginning of this post of how I was inserting it. Thanks And Chocolate huh.... Terion -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php