Whitespace Characters in a String

DJM

Is there any way to strip all whitespace characters (tabs, n/l etc.)from a string and replace them with spaces using str_replace or any other function?

I'm having a particular problem with the N/L (Enter) character, which seems to terminate the string. Using str_replace, like this - $anything=str_replace(chr(13), " ", $anything); I can replace the N/L with a space, but the string is still terminated immediately after the N/L.

Thanks.

bastien

characters chr(10) and chr(13) you'd need to replace both to make this work

but any reason why you can't use [man]nl2br/man?

br__ken

//try either of these:
$str=preg_replace("/[[:space:]]/","whatever",$str);
//or:
$str=preg_replace("/[ \f\r\t\n]/","whatever",$str);

DJM

Thanks, I'll try your suggestion.

What I'm doing is to create a confirmation page for a form, which then passes the fields to formmail. The problem that I have encountered results from a textarea field, where the user can enter a N/L. Although the contents of the field (including the N/L characters are passed correctly to the confirmation page), formmail truncates the string after the first N/L.

I've tried using nl2br(), but it prints the string with a following ">" at the foot of the confirmation page as well as printing the string in the approriate place on the page.