Putting double spaces instead of single spaces

[mikebyrne]

Im looking at trying to replace all single spacing between fields with double spacing

 

At present my file looks like this

 

3 Caxxxan Maxxxet Waxxxxe Axxxxxxy Co.Kildare

 

but after the double spacing, I want it to look like

 

3  Caxxxan  Maxxxet  Waxxxxe  Axxxxxxy  Co.Kildare

 

The code I have so far is

 

<?php
$fields=file('C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\5april.txt');
    foreach($fields as $i=>$field)
    {
       $field=str_replace(' ',',',$field);
       $field=str_replace('  ',',',$field);
       $fields[$i]=$field;
    }
    file_put_contents('C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\test.txt',implode("\r",$fields));
?> 

 

Any help would be great

[JonnoTheDev]

$field=str_replace('  ',',',$field);

Well, that is going to turn a double space into a comma. Read the function manual

http://uk.php.net/str_replace

[oni-kun]

      $field=str_replace(' ',',',$field);

      $field=str_replace('  ',',',$field);

 

Why are you replacing single/double spaces with commas then?

 

    file_put_contents('C:\Users\Mike\Desktop\test.txt',implode("\r",$fields));

 

Are you on a mac? else \r will not work.

[mikebyrne]

No Im not on a mac, Im on a PC

 

So, should the line read?

 

$field=str_replace('  ',' ',$field);

 

 

[oni-kun]

No Im not on a mac, Im on a PC

 

So, should the line read?

 

$field=str_replace('  ',' ',$field);

 

In reverse order.

 

$field=str_replace(' ','  ',$field);

Read the documentation.

 

And \r is a linefeed for macs. Windows uses \r\n. I'd recommend only using this when dealing with newlines:

implode("\n",$fields)