How to Remove odd spaces...?

[QueenZ]

Hi guys,

Let's say that i have a string like this...

 

$string = "word      word     word";

or like this

$string = "word------word-----word";

 

I need them to be.

$string = "word word word";

$string= "word-word-word"

 

I'm wondering what function removes odd characters from the string. Characters that repeats...

As far as i know trim() only removes repeated chars before or after the string only..

[cooldude832]

well if we assume any space >2 is bad we can try to do it with regex

 

we can use a pattern like

^(\s\s+)?$

and use preg_replace to fix it up

[QueenZ]

well if we assume any space >2 is bad we can try to do it with regex

 

we can use a pattern like

^(\s\s+)?$

and use preg_replace to fix it up

 

I'm not that good with this kind of stuff so i don't know how to do this..

[wildteen88]

well if we assume any space >2 is bad we can try to do it with regex

 

we can use a pattern like

^(\s\s+)?$

and use preg_replace to fix it up

 

I'm not that good with this kind of stuff so i don't know how to do this..

 

$string = "word      word     word";

$new_string = preg_replace('/([\s]+)/', ' ', $string);

echo '<pre>' . $string . '</pre>';
echo '<pre>' . $new_string . '</pre>';

[sasa]

or try

<?php
$string = "word-----word     word 1+++2000???";
echo preg_replace('/([^\w])\1+/','\1',$string);
?>