[SOLVED] White spaces

[redfox180]

Hello,

 

I am trying to standardize all different white spaces inside a text to a defined value, for example 1.

 

How can I clean up this text:

 

Josie      has          4  different coats.<                 

One is blue<

...

TO THIS:

 

Josie/has/4/different/coats/One/is/blue

 

Ive tried str_replace but doesn't work since the spaces are not defined.

Does anyone know how to do it?

 

Thanks

James

[PHP Monkeh]

Here's my (probably slightly rubbish) solution.

 

<?php

$inputStr = "Josie      has           4   different coats.<                 
One is blue<";

$explodeInput = explode(" ", $inputStr);

$newStr="";

for($i=0; $i<count($explodeInput); $i++) {

$arrayInput = $explodeInput[$i];

if($arrayInput != null || $arrayInput != "") {
	$newStr .= trim($arrayInput);
	$newStr .= "/";
}

}

$newStr = substr($newStr, 0, strlen($newStr)-1);
$newStr = str_replace("<", "", $newStr);
$newStr = str_replace(".", "", $newStr);

echo $newStr;

?>

 

I just pasted in your input string and it outputs what you want ^.^ modify as you wish.

[redfox180]

Thanks. The only thing, it leaves a slash at the end, do you know how to leave it blank?

Cheers

James

[PHP Monkeh]

<?php $newStr = substr($newStr, 0, strlen($newStr)-1); ?>

 

That line which I added after the loop removes the last slash ^

[effigy]

<pre>
<?php
$data = <<<DATA
Josie      has           4   different coats.<                 
One is blue<
DATA;
echo trim(preg_replace('/[\s.<]+/', '/', $data), '/');
?>
</pre>

[resago]

$string=preg_replace(' +','\/',$string);

 

this means replace any space on one or more repititions with a /

 

[redfox180]

Thanks Everyone! Problem solved.

 

The soulution posted by Monkeh works perfectly, I just had to change the last value from -1 to -2

<?php $newStr = substr($newStr, 0, strlen($newStr)-1); ?>