PHP Language - Re: Why is this not stripping the newlines/returns from my HTMLtext area?

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Re: Why is this not stripping the newlines/returns from my HTMLtext area?

puneet.kandhari@gmail.com

2005-11-22, 6:56 pm

function clearSpaces($str){
$keywordDisallow = array(
"\n" => "",
"\t" => "",
"\r" => ""
);
foreach ($keywordDisallow as $key => $val){
$str =& str_replace($key, $val, $str);
}
$str =& preg_replace("(\s+)", " ", $str);
return trim($str);
}

That should be a useful way to do it.

worzel wrote:[color=darkred]
> $string=eregi_replace("[\n\r]+","",$_POST['address']); This did the trick!
>
> Seems to be this is a very basic thing yet it seems no definitive function
> to do it? I ws barking up the right tree, knoew what the issues were, yet
> still found it a tricky thing to pin down? Is there no dedicated function fo
> rthis, must catch a few folk off guard??
>
> Anyway, thanks man, very much appreciated.
>
> "Philip Ronan" <invalid@invalid.invalid> wrote in message
> news:BFA3869E.3B142%invalid@invalid.invalid...

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