Correcting the spacing of a phrase using PHP

Question

Consider This string that has wrong spacing:

$q1 = '   little  cute girl';

(3 at the beginning, it should be no space) (2 between 'little' and 'cute', it should be 1)

If I explode and print_r,

$r1 = explode(' ', $q1);
print_r($r1);

The output will be:

Array ( [0] => [1] => [2] => [3] => little [4] => [5] => cute [6] => girl )

What can I do so that $q1 can be properly spaced,

$q1_after_correction = 'little cute girl'

so that after explode and print_r, the output to be like this: (No space at beginning!)

Array ( [0] => little [1] => cute [2] => girl )

Any idea please?

See the linked question to remove repeated spaces and use `trim()` to remove leading and trailing ones. — Álvaro González, Jun 10 '18 at 11:18
Just modify your `$r1` like this `$r1 = array_values(array_filter(explode(' ', $q1)));` — Wahyu Kristianto, Jun 10 '18 at 11:20
Oh u should, I'll accept your answer. I hate those regex answer. — Newbee123, Jun 10 '18 at 11:32

score 1 · Answer 1 · answered Jun 10 '18 at 11:09

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try this

$q1 = '   little  cute girl';
$spaceCleanUp = preg_replace('/\s/', ' ', $q1); // This will replace successive spaces with one
$r1 = explode(' ', $spaceCleanUp);
print_r($r1);

answered Jun 10 '18 at 11:09

Satya

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