Remove excess whitespace from within a string

Question

Not sure exactly what you want but here are two situations:

1. If you are just dealing with excess whitespace on the beginning or end of the string you can use trim(), ltrim() or rtrim() to remove it.

2. If you are dealing with extra spaces within a string consider a preg_replace of multiple whitespaces " "* with a single whitespace " ".

Example:

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

$str = str_replace(' ','',$str);

Or, replace with underscore, & nbsp; etc etc.

none of other examples worked for me, so I've used this one:

trim(preg_replace('/[\t\n\r\s]+/', ' ', $text_to_clean_up))

this replaces all tabs, new lines, double spaces etc to simple 1 space.

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

The above line of code will remove extra spaces, as well as leading and trailing spaces.

If you want to replace only multiple spaces in a string, for Example: "this string have lots of space . " And you expect the answer to be "this string have lots of space", you can use the following solution:

$strng = "this string                        have lots of                        space  .   ";

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

echo $strng;