ereg_replace ... ?

ruach

I have a variable that beings with a space. I need to remove that space.

I tried this:

$erMachine = ereg_replace(" ", "", $machine);

but it didn't work like I hoped. Can some one give me a hand.

thanks

coditoergosum

That should work exactly how you have it. It works on my machine.

Maybe post a bigger part of the script, and maybe we can find a problem somewhere else.

BuzzLY

but it didn't work like I hoped.

Can you tell us what you were expecting, and what you got instead? It might give a better insight on what is wrong.

ruach

Like i hoped just meant i wanted it to remov the space and it didn't.

i don't think there is any more relevant code, at least i wouldn't know what portions to include. The waya the script works is that a user fills out a form and upon pressing submit the page processing the form calls a function that i wrote to check to returned values.

one of those values $machine begins with a space because is in a select menu and i am using spaces to break up the options.

this is my test script:

echo "machine = '$machine'."; //this returns machine = ' PP2'.
$erMachine = ereg_replace(" ", "", $machine);
echo "erMachine = '$erMachine'."; //this returns machine = ' PP2'.

It is cut and pasted so the syntax is exactly like i have it. If it is working for you do you know why it might not be working for me?

ruach

does any one else have any ideas????😕

coditoergosum

Try using str_replace() rather than ereg_replace(), and see if that works. Really, you should do this anyway for something this simple since str_replace is more efficient than regexps.

ruach

thanks for the help, i got it to work.I was using   not spaces. but when i tried to remove those it didn't work either. so finally i settled on using dashes '-' and everything is fine now.

thank you

dalecosp

Just for the archives, and speaking of efficiency....

$string=" this";

ltrim($string);

echo "$string";

output is---->'this'

....or did I learn php in an alternate universe?

😕 dalecosp 😉

planetsim

Either they dont know that function or.. They dont know that there are most of the time alternatives..