[SOLVED] some space can't remove

[mga_ka_php]

how do i remove space from a string? because i'm using str_replace, there are some spaces which couldn't be removed?

[Maq]

<?php

$s = "tims  gsd    d    aa...a      s asd f";

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

echo $s;

?>

[mga_ka_php]

That's what i did, but there are still spaces left, i don't know why. is there a special character for space?

 

<?php

$s = "tims  gsd     d     aa...a      s asd f";

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

echo $s;

?>

[taquitosensei]

They're probably tabs

try

str_replace("\t","", $s); 

[Maq]

This should work:

 

$s = "tims  gsd		d     aa...a      s asd f";
$s = preg_replace('/\s*/' ,"" , $s);
echo $s;
?>

[mga_ka_php]

it didn't work also, i tried viewing the source and found out that the space is in  

 

how do i remove that?

 

This should work:

 

<?php
$s = "tims  gsd		d     aa...a      s asd f";
$s = preg_replace('/\s*/' ,"" , $s);
echo $s;
?>

[Maq]

$s = "tims  gsd      d     aa...a      s asd f";
$s = preg_replace('/\s*/' ,"" , html_entity_decode($s));
echo $s;
?>

 

[mga_ka_php]

still didn't work. this is giving me a headache.

 

<?php
$s = "tims  gsd      d     aa...a      s asd f";
$s = preg_replace('/\s*/' ,"" , html_entity_decode($s));
echo $s;
?>

 

[Maq]

still didn't work. this is giving me a headache.

 

Where is this string coming from/generated?

[mga_ka_php]

from database

 

still didn't work. this is giving me a headache.

 

Where is this string coming from/generated?

[Maq]

Yeah sorry I'm not sure, here's a shot in the dark...

 

$s = "tims  gsd       d     a	a...a      s asd f";
$s = html_entity_decode($s);
$s = preg_replace('/[\s|\t| ]*/' ,"" , $s);
echo $s;
?>

 

 

 

[sastro]

Other alternative :

eregi_replace(' ','',$str);

[mga_ka_php]

still didn't work. i'm getting this string from database to form like this

 

id-name-state-city-date

 

then use that as my url for my pages

 

got the id, name, state, city, date from a site then save it in our database

 

Yeah sorry I'm not sure, here's a shot in the dark...

 

<?php
$s = "tims  gsd       d     a	a...a      s asd f";
$s = html_entity_decode($s);
$s = preg_replace('/[\s|\t| ]*/' ,"" , $s);
echo $s;
?>

 

 

 

[bluejay002]

Was the data out from a single field or was it from a concatenated string?

 

If the one you are trying to trim is from one field only, then instead of having that trim side on PHP, better to disallow it when you are trying to save it in the first place.

 

I am not so sure how you saved it so am a bit confused if the previous suggestions were not working.

[Maq]

Can you give us an EXACT sample of a piece of data that doesn't work?

[sastro]

First, you should htmlentities the string and if the white space is not  , just use array to str_replace.

[mga_ka_php]

i'm downloading the data from a site. by using curl

stip the xml tags and separate the each tags with a delimiter

 

ex. <name>my name</name><address>my address</address>.....

then will convert that to name:my name|#|address:my address........

 

then save that to our database.

 

if i'm going to get that data, i will save it as an array so i could get the key and value.

 

now as im researching the data. i found out that in the name, it has space before and after the name

so it will be like  name: my name |#|

 

i couldn't remove that space

[mga_ka_php]

i've been playing around with htmlentities and str_replace but still no luck.

 

First, you should htmlentities the string and if the white space is not  , just use array to str_replace.

[mga_ka_php]

solve my problem. a friend of mine suggested to convert it to hex. then i get the hex of space and remove it. and it works. thank you for help guys. i appreciated your suggestions.

[Maq]

solve my problem. a friend of mine suggested to convert it to hex. then i get the hex of space and remove it. and it works. thank you for help guys. i appreciated your suggestions.

 

I still think that one of the ways we suggested would work...