Eliminate white space in between characters in PHP

Question

lets say: " i have something here, please allow me! "

will become: "i have something here, please allow me!"

Try look up preg_replace(). – Daniel H.J. Oct 10 '17 at 06:20 — Daniel H.J., Oct 10 '17 at 06:20

score 0 · Answer 1 · answered Oct 10 '17 at 06:24

Just use preg_replace (select all spaces (which comes more than one in a row) and replace it with a single space).

Example:

<?php
$str = "    i have       something       here, please allow      me!    ";
echo trim(preg_replace('/\s{2,}/', ' ', $str));

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