RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 5:13 PM To: Jack Dempsey; PHP list Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output OK, this time the \n worked. The only thing I changed was using / delimiters instead of | delimiters in the search string. No idea if/why that would a

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Ken
OK, this time the \n worked. The only thing I changed was using / delimiters instead of | delimiters in the search string. No idea if/why that would affect anything in the replacement string. Anyway, I finally came up with exactly what I wanted: preg_replace(array("/\s*\n+\s*/", "/[ ]+/"), ar

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 1:56 PM To: Jack Dempsey Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 11:41 AM 12/6/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: >using "\n" as your replacement text will do ithowever, if you want a >newline in the html, then

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Jack Dempsey
gular expressions as well.its worth the money jack -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Thursday, December 06, 2001 3:08 AM To: Jack Dempsey; liljim; PHP list Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 02:43 PM 12

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-06 Thread Ken
At 02:43 PM 12/5/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: >$t = preg_replace('/\s+/',' ',$text); One more thing: How do I replace with newline instead of a space? I read through the manuals but couldn't grasp how to do this. \n didn't cut it. And, more advanced - The above replaces any groups of 2 or m

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread Jack Dempsey
sday, December 05, 2001 2:01 PM To: Jack Dempsey Subject: RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output At 10:57 AM 12/5/01 -0500, Jack Dempsey wrote: >a space (\s is from perl) Ah, OK, yours doesn't deal with newlines. From list member "James", a solution

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread Jack Dempsey
t); James "Jack Dempsey" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message [EMAIL PROTECTED]">news:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > $text = preg_replace('|\s+|',' ',$text); > > > -----Original Message- > From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wed

Re: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-05 Thread liljim
:[EMAIL PROTECTED]... > $text = preg_replace('|\s+|',' ',$text); > > > -Original Message- > From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] > Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:06 AM > To: PHP list > Subject: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces b

RE: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-04 Thread Jack Dempsey
$text = preg_replace('|\s+|',' ',$text); -Original Message- From: Ken [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] Sent: Wednesday, December 05, 2001 2:06 AM To: PHP list Subject: [PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output I want to remove all superfluous b

[PHP] Reg ex help-Removing extra blank spaces before HTML output

2001-12-04 Thread Ken
I want to remove all superfluous blank spaces before I sent my HTML output, to make the output smaller. So I'd like to take $input, replace any number of blank space or newlines that are consecutive and replace them with a single blank. I.e. I will list a blank space as b and a newline as n: