[RESOLVED] <space> not recognized as a <space>....

Webspeeder

Well, I'm getting closer.

I have the following string that went through string replace function, replacing each <space> with a ",," (comma comma), but there are spaces that were not replaced.

Is there some sort of special character instead of a space that I need to look for?

06/06/2008 03656 373.17 SU136995,,,,,,,,,,,,,, XJ256976,,,,",,&

This is the first string of many that were returned when downloading the contents of a page.

...

laserlight

Provide the smallest and simplest runnable script that demonstrates the problem. For example, this works for me:

<?php
$str = 'This is a test';
$str = str_replace(' ', ',,', $str);
echo $str;
?>

Note that whitespace include spaces, tabs, newlines and carriage returns, so it is possible that you are dealing with whitespace other than spaces. Handling such a situation is easy with regex:

<?php
$str = "This is\ta\ntest";
echo $str . "<br />\n";
$str = preg_replace('/\s/', ',,', $str);
echo $str;
?>

Webspeeder

Webspeeder wrote:
Well, I'm getting closer.

I have the following string that went through string replace function, replacing each <space> with a ",," (comma comma), but there are spaces that were not replaced.

Is there some sort of special character instead of a space that I need to look for?

06/06/2008 03656 373.17 SU136995,,,,,,,,,,,,,, XJ256976,,,,",,&

This is the first string of many that were returned when downloading the contents of a page.

...

I got it, they look like spaces but are tabs ("\t").

Webspeeder

laserlight wrote:
Provide the smallest and simplest runnable script that demonstrates the problem. For example, this works for me:
<?php
$str = 'This is a test';
$str = str_replace(' ', ',,', $str);
echo $str;
?>
Note that whitespace include spaces, tabs, newlines and carriage returns, so it is possible that you are dealing with whitespace other than spaces. Handling such a situation is easy with regex:
<?php
$str = "This is\ta\ntest";
echo $str . "<br />\n";
$str = preg_replace('/\s/', ',,', $str);
echo $str;
?>

I didn't see your post when I posted mine. That might work better....Thanks....