Matching more than one space

[networkthis]

How can I make an regular expression that will take a message and match more then one blank space and replace it with just one blank space??? 

 

Thanks in advance!!!

[priti]

this can be helpful

 

preg_replace("\s+", "", $text);

 

[damien@damosworld.com]

One minor change, replace match with one space instead of nothing

Its also worth noting that technically this replace carriage returns as well.  This will make everything appear on one line.  Is this what you are wanting or is it simply just space characters that need replacing?

 

preg_replace("\s+", " ", $text);

 

Damien

[networkthis]

Would like to replace just the space characters.

 

 

[priti]

One minor change, replace match with one space instead of nothing

Its also worth noting that technically this replace carriage returns as well.  This will make everything appear on one line.  Is this what you are wanting or is it simply just space characters that need replacing?

 

preg_replace("\s+", " ", $text);

 

Damien

 

thanks damien for correcting me

[corbin]

The space character in regular expressions is simply a space.  (Well there are other ways to represent it, but that's the easiest way without lumping in other characters.)

 

preg_replace('/[ ]+/', ' ', $text);