string question

itworks

i've looked up for a function that would do this but i didn't succeed in find one.

what i want is to remove any whitespaces from a result i'm getting from the DB.

imagine this $row_users['name'] outputs "my name" but i want to turn it to "myname" so i can compare it to another variable.

i'm hoping this is an easy one, thanks in advance.

laserlight

Just use [man]str_replace/man and replace out whitespace.

Conversely you could use [man]preg_replace/man

itworks

hmm... i did try that, i'm using it like this:

str_replace(" ", "", $row_users['name']);

but it doesn't work.... maybe i'm doing it wrong, is there an error in it? is there another way to do it?

meanwhile i'm gonna try the preg_replace() function too but maybe the problem is in the way i'm using the str_replace.

Weedpacket

Originally posted by itworks
maybe the problem is in the way i'm using the str_replace.

Let's see the code where you're using it and maybe we'll be able to tell.

TheDefender

The str_replace should work for you, but if you are having that difficult of a time in doing it, then you could combine explode and implode to simulate it...

$string = "my name";
$string = implode("", explode(" ", $string));
echo $string;
// Outputs:  myname

When you say "it isn't working", how is it not working? We could help point you in the right direction for getting the str_replace to work...