removing all white spaces from scrolling text box

removing all white spaces from scrolling text box

My guestbook doesn't work correctly when I copy text from text processor into scrolling text box because of special characters that text processor leave. How do I remove all white spaces from scrolling text box and place new ones in there places.

 

Not sure if I understood you right.

$text = preg_replace('/[\s\r\n\t]/', ' ', $text);

PHP:

 

You asked about removing all white space, but this will remove spaces between words: soyourstringwilllooklikethis

You might want to try just \r\t. \n is a valid end line character for unix and \s is spaces.

For a lesser experienced PHP programmer or hobbiest, you might find str_replace easier to use than preg_replace (which requires some knowledge of regular expressions):

http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.str-replace.php

$test = str_replace(array("\r", "\t"), '', $text);

Code (markup):

 

^^ Note that \r and \t between single quotes won't be recognized as may expected. Use double quotes instead.

 

doh...

Thanks nico -rep your way