[Resolved] how to trim japanese whitespace?

[rainer2]

how do i trim a japanese string with whitespaces on it?

[BuzzLY]

trim() is supposed to be multibyte safe. But if you are having trouble with it, you might try this (untested):

function mb_trim($string) {
  $rtn = mb_ereg_replace("[[:space:]]*(.*)[[:space:]]*", "\\\\1", $string);
  return $rtn;
}

$trimmed = mb_trim($myString);

I am more familiar with PCRE regexp's than POSIX -- if this doesn't work properly, I suggest looking up [man]mb_ereg_replace[/man] in the manual.

If someone sees an error in my code, please feel free to fix it for rainer2.

HTH

[rainer2]

thank you very much for your reply.

I thought it is a white space but it's not or maybe that is a japanese white space Im confused here, anyway I just copy the said japanese white space and I specify it on the trim function as the character to be trimmed and it work. Below is the said character.

$string = trim ($string, '~A@')

[BuzzLY]

Excellent 🙂

Make sure when you get your problem fixed to mark the thread "resolved."

[rainer2]

Make sure when you get your problem fixed to mark the thread "resolved."

Ok. Again thanks!