Remove Tabs and spaces with preg_replace?

[PHPdev]

Trying to remove all the TABS and spaces from a string using preg_replace()

I wold think these would be white spaces and thus the \s should so it... So what am I doing wrong?

$string = "this  is     a      test";
preg_replace("/\\s/", "", $string);
die($string);

Thanks

PHPdev

[xblue]

I think you are close, it is just that preg_replace returns the modified string, so you'd need to assign it to something:

$string = "this  is     a      test";
$string = preg_replace("/\\s/", "", $string);
die($string);

(I didn't test it, but I think this should work)

[PHPdev]

XBLUE,

Thanks I just got that too...

I was thinking for some reason that it would put the string back into the variable I used to replace the stirng in...

Thanks

PHPdev