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

why you are doing like this?
html displays only one space even you use more than one space...

For example:

test               content 1       2 3 4            5

The output willl be:
test content 1 2 3 4 5

if you need more than single space in html, you have to use