[RESOLVED] How to indent source code inside html

[mika79]

Hi!

I have some source code correctly indented and I need a regular expression that will replace the initial text spaces with  . I don't want to use a pre tag, just replace the leading spaces. For each line the expression should replace all space characters from the beginning to the end of the string until a character different from space is reached.

Any ideas?😕

[bpat1434]

$string = [man]str_replace[/man](' ', ' ', $string);

Easy as that...

If you wanted to do tabs:
$string = [man]str_replace[/man]("\t", '    ', $string);

[Weedpacket]

[man]strspn[/man] can tell you how many spaces the line starts with, and you can use that in [man]str_replace[/man].

You could also use a regular expression, but the strspn/str_replace seems the less effort.

[NogDog]

You could also just change the style of whatever HTML element is containing the text to be "[noparse]white-space:pre[/noparse]".

[mika79]

Weedpacket;10885968 wrote:

[man]strspn[/man] can tell you how many spaces the line starts with, and you can use that in [man]str_replace[/man].

You could also use a regular expression, but the strspn/str_replace seems the less effort.

Thank you for your help, it works!