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

//Newline and tab space to single space

$from_mysql = str_replace(array("\r\n", "\r", "\n", "\t"), ' ', $from_mysql);


// Multiple spaces to single space ( using regular expression)

$from_mysql = ereg_replace(" {2,}", ' ',$from_mysql);

// Replaces 2 or more spaces with a single space, {2,} indicates that you are looking for 2 or more than 2 spaces in a string.