regular expression question

[patrickrock]

Ok, I never do this, but I'm tired of trying to understand regular expressions enough to figure this out. Im going to break my own rule and ask for a snippet of code.

I want to replace "><" with "><"

where \n = newline obviosly.

And I want to ignore whitespace in > and <

can someone help me?

[mrhappiness]

try

preg_replace('%>[ ]*<%', ">\n<", $var);

[swr]

What mrhappiness said, but instead of [ ] use \s so that it'll catch other whitespace (tabs, for example; not sure what else). \s means any whitespace character; \S means any non-whitespace character.