strip some but not all whitespace

[brooky]

Hi,

I know:

str_replace(" ","",$variable)

will strip space charachters BUT...

How can large amounts of whitespace be stripped to leave one space.

e.g.

"                            "

to

" "

Doe's any one know a method?

[Installer]

One way to do it:

while (strpos($variable, '  ') !== false) {
    $variable = str_replace('  ', ' ', $variable);
}

[madwormer2]

Well, this sorta works:

<?php
$datatata = 'Helooo e    reoeo    grjgjrj  n                mmmgm';
$a = preg_replace ( "/\s+/", ' ', $datatata );
echo '<pre>' . print_r($a,true) . '</pre>';
?>

BUT it also replaces new lines with just a space. So make sure to put your <br>'s in beforehand.