removing spaces and lines

[mraza]

Hi,

I am trying to parse a html page, but i get a lot of empty spaces, please any idea how can i remove spaces, here is my text:

         
        
          
this          goes here



   
   
     








one line here

  







some other line here

see there is a lot of space between text,

 

thanks for any help

[dawsba]

function replace_multiple_spaces($string)
{
// tabs, new lines and carriages are also replaced
$string = ereg_replace("[ \t\n\r]+", " ", $string);
return $string;
}
$string = "This
is
a   dummy
text. ";
$new_string = replace_multiple_spaces($string);
// Outputs: This is a dummy text
echo $new_string;

[OldWest]

What php function are you using to parse the page?

[dreamwest]

This will strip all whitespace and normalizes your string

 

$text = "This
is
a   dummy
text. ";
echo preg_replace('!\s+!', ' ', $text);

[mraza]

Thanks guys, it worked well with preg_replace function

What php function are you using to parse the page?

using php-curl functions