Removing large whitespaces in middle of text

[Zych]

How can one remove large amounts of whitespace in a text string? I do not want to remove the spaces between standard words. For example lets say I have this string:

This is the most helpful forum. You should join it!


I would want to change it to:

This is the most helpful forum. You should join it!

I don't really care if there is two spaces after a period but it would be nice. I have seen replacement strings that replace the whitespace so it is all gone but as I said I want to keep the standard spacing.

Thanks,

Zych

 

[ORettinger]

Well, i asume you always have more than 2 whitespaces between your two text parts.

So you should try something like

$newtext=ereg_replace("  ", "", $oldtext)

this should erase all "double-whitespaces" by replacing them with an empty string.

I'm not sure if it works 'cause I don't have a php-System nearby but if PHP doesn't behave different to other languages, this should do it

 

[Zych]

Thanks, I actually made a while loop to change three spaces to two. However I think my problem is line feeds and/or carriage returns. I am trying to figure out how to do this.

- Zych