Replace excess whitespaces and line-breaks with PHP?

Question

$string = \"My    text       has so    much   whitespace    




Plenty of    spaces  and            tabs\";

echo preg_replace(\"/\\s\\s+/\", \" \", $string);
         


        

Answer 1

Replace Multiple Newline, Tab, Space

$text = preg_replace("/[\r\n]+/", "\n", $text);
$text = preg_replace("/\s+/", ' ', $text);

Tested :)