[SOLVED] IF Whitespace In $field Do This

[EternalSorrow]

This should be an easy problem to solve for most, but I'm baffled by the idea of whitespaces in i$fields.

 

What I want to know is how to find if a $field contains whitespace (just normal spaces, in this case) so I can perform a simple IF statement, like so:

 

if ($row['title'] has [[whitespace]]) {

$space = ' ';

}

else {

$space = '';

}

 

Thanks in advance for any help.

[michaellunsford]

<?php
if(preg_match('/\s/',$row['title'])) {
$space = ' ';
}
else {
$space = '';
}
?>

[ohdang888]

this should work to find it:

$mystring = 'abc ';
$findme   = ' ';
$pos = strpos($mystring, $findme);

if($pos == true){
//there is white space
}

[smerny]

could simplify the last one to this

 

if(strpos($row['title'], " "))

  echo 'there is a space';

else

  echo 'there is not a space';

[michaellunsford]

strpos won't work if the space is at the front. It also won't identify a tab, newline, or return - aka: the other whitespace ;-)

[EternalSorrow]

Thanks so much for the quick responses!   Topic is officially solved!