Removing white spaces and line breaks

[lokie538]

Hi,

 

I have to find how to remove all the white spaces and line breaks so it is just a string. For instance the output should be "cooroy, cooroy mountain, lake mcdonald, tinbeerwah"

 

This is the output I have at the moment:

           
                    
                  
                  
                     
                           
                            COOROY,
                           
                  
                     
                           
                            COOROY MOUNTAIN,
                           
                  
                     
                           
                            LAKE MACDONALD,
                           
                  
                     
                           
                            TINBEERWAH
                           
                  
                  
                        

 

Ive tried to string replace " " with "" but there are still all the line breaks which I need to be removed.

 

There is probably a simplified way to do this? Any suggestion guys? Ive tried looking at nl2br( but that hasn't worked either.

[dawsba]

off the top of my head

for($i=0;$i<=strlen($string);$i++)
{
  if(preg_match("/^([a-z0-9])/i",substr($string,$i,1)){$new_string .= substring($string,$i,1);}
}

i have no doubt theres a better way of doing it but i just woke up

[dawsba]

sorry, revised

for($i=0;$i<=strlen($string);$i++)
{
  if(preg_match("/^([a-z0-9\,])/i",substr($string,$i,1))){$new_string .= substr($string,$i,1);}
}
echo $new_string; ?>