How to remove all spaces from a string in PHP and Javascript

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How to strip all spaces out of a string in php?

How can I remove all spaces from a string in PHP and in Javascript? I want to remove all spaces from the left hand side, right hand side and from between each character.

For Example:

$myString = "  Hello   my     Dear  ";

I want to get this string as "HellomyDear".

Please demonstrate how I can do this in both PHP and Javascript.

Answer 1

PHP

$newString = str_replace(" ","",$myString);

JavaScript

myString.replace(" ", "")

Answer 2

Remove just spaces

PHP:

$string = str_replace(' ', '', $original_string);

str_replace() man page.

Javascript:

var string = original_string.replace(' ', '');

String.replace() man page.

Remove all whitespace

If you need to remove all whitespace from a string (including tabs etc) then you can use:

PHP:

$string = preg_replace('/\s/', '', $original_string);

preg_replace() man page.

Javascript:

var string = original_string.replace(/\s/g, '');

Answer 3

use the str_replace function:

str_replace(' ','',$myString)

Answer 4

PHP:

$mystring = str_replace(' ', '', $mystring);

Javascript:

mystring = mystring.replace(' ', '');