eliminate space from a field

Hi All

I have a field which contain data with spaces .these spaces are long and are mostly in between words.

How can I eliminate these spaces and get data in a sentence with only single spaces.


Thanks

 

$text = preg_replace('~\s{2,}~', ' ', $text);

PHP:

 

Not sure if you want spaces at all, so yeah.. This gets rid of all spaces.

$spaces = array(" ", " ");
$text = "Hello  World      Hello     Again ";
$text = str_replace($spaces, "", $text);

Code (php):

 

hi

thank you both for your help.
$text = preg_replace('~\s{2,}~', ' ', $text); --worked perfect.

one more question... i have a string i want to extract a particular value from it (location).there are too many similar symbols in the string so i am not able to do it in the usual way.

But if taken from the back i can easily extract the location value.. but don't have any idea how to do it...
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this is the string:front street Unique historical building Office Space - 1925 square foot + Call 416-485-9323 (18 Nov 2007) (416) 4859323, - Toronto, ON Mount Pleasant West 3

I want to extract "Toronto, ON Mount Pleasant West 3" from it


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is there an easy code for it

 

a very simple funtion trim() which will remove all unnessery spaces from string

ex: $str=trim($srt);

 

$location = trim(end(explode('-', $string)));

PHP:

trim() does only remove spaces from the beginning and end of the string, and not in between.