how can i replace a double space with a single one

[shadiadiph]

how can i replace a double space with a single one?

[redarrow]

<?php

$word="hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=str_replace("  "," ",$word);

echo $test;

?>

 

 

tested

<?php

$word="hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=str_replace("  "," ",$word);

echo $test;

echo "<br><br>The name word is ".strlen($word)." charecters <br>
     The name $test is ".strlen($test)." charecters";

?>

[shadiadiph]

mm doesn't seem to work every instance of a double space is after a "  for eample.

 

house"  said

street"  was

[redarrow]

proper way then!.

<?php

$word="hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=str_replace("  "," ",$word);

echo $test;

echo "<br><br>The name word is ".strlen($word)." charecters <br>
     The name $test is ".strlen($test)." charecters";

?>

[shadiadiph]

mm doesn't seem to work don't know why

[redarrow]

my last attempt sorry.

<?php

$word="  hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=preg_replace("/  /"," ",$word);

echo $test;

echo "<br><br>The name word is ".strlen($word)." charecters <br>
     The name $test is ".strlen($test)." charecters";

?>

[shadiadiph]

mm dont know why but the spaces i was mentioning are showing as � when called from the database how can I replace these? they were showing as blank spaces before i added the article to the database and couln't replace them with str_ replace i saved the article to the database using

 

$article = stripslashes($article);
$article = nl2br($article);
$article = mysql_real_escape_string($article);

[irkevin]

can you give a link to see what you are doing?

 

this should have been good

 

<?php

$word="hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=str_replace("  "," ",$word);

echo $test;

?>

[shadiadiph]

mm this seems to be the problem when i use.

 

      $pattern4 = '/’â€/';
      $replacement4 = '"';
      $article = preg_replace($pattern4, $replacement4, $string4);

 

it is replacing the symbol with '"' the two hypens around the quote also?

[MasterACE14]

need a diff regex, not sure what though.

[shadiadiph]

all the whitespaces appear after ’†and †i have just spent hours playing with it and got nowhere i can remove those charachters fine but the whitespace after them just can't get rid of it

[NWCAthletics.com]

Did anybody find a resolution to this issue?  I am having a similar problem.  I am pulling posts from a WordPress database and everywhere that there is a double space, a box and a space is displayed.  When I look at the record in the database, I see two spaces.  When I try to replace two spaces with a single space using str_replace or preg_replace, it doesn't find two spaces and ignores the command.

 

$post_text = "Why doesn't this work?  It is driving me nuts!";

 

$post_text = str_replace("  ", " ", $post_text);

 

echo($post_text);

Why doesn't this work?  It is driving me nuts!

 

 

Virtual beer for whoever figures this out!

[daydreamer]

<?php

$word="hello  i am reddarrow";

$test=preg_replace("~[\s]{2}?[\t]?~i"," ",$word);

echo $test;

?>

 

This works for me. Let me know about that virtual beer, 

[NWCAthletics.com]

Nice try but all that seems to do is produce an empty string.

 

Here's an example of the problem output...

 

Do a find on "TV" and you'll see a box right after it.  You'll also see this repeated numrous times throughout the article whereever the author used a double-space.

 

http://www.nwcathletics.com/index.php?act=view_post&league=1&page_name=team_news&post_id=687&school=0&sport=1&tab=1

[NWCAthletics.com]

Well, looks like I get to buy myself a beer.  The mysterious character is #160.  Not sure how it gets in there but if I replace it with an empty string, all is well.

 

$text = str_replace(chr(160),"",$text);