how to remove multiple slashes in URI with 'PREG' or 'HTACCESS'

Question

how to remove multiple slashes in URI with \'PREG\' or \'HTACCESS\'

site.com/edition/new/// -> site.com/edition/new/

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site.com/edition///new/ -> site.co

Answer 1

Edit: Ha I read this question as "without preg" oh well :3

function removeabunchofslashes($url){
  $explode = explode('://',$url);
  while(strpos($explode[1],'//'))
    $explode[1] = str_replace('//','/',$explode[1]);
  return implode('://',$explode);
}

echo removeabunchofslashes('http://www.site.com/edition////new///');