on 2/12/01 4:30 PM, Christian Reiniger at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote:
> On Monday 12 February 2001 21:08, Jesse Swensen wrote:
>>>> This should be a quick one, but I can't seem to wrap my brain around
>>>> it. All I need to do is replace leading or trailing spaces with
>>>> underscores. If there is spaces in between words, leave them alone.
>> but I wanted to convert each space to a "_", then what? I tried:
>>
>> $fix = ereg_replace("(^ +)|( +$)", "_", $checkme);
>>
>> and
>>
>> $fix = ereg_replace("(^[ ]+)|([ ]+$)", "_", $checkme);
>
> preg_match ('/^(\s*)(.*?)(\s*)$/', $checkme, $matches);
> $NewString = str_repeat ('_', strlen ($matches [1])).
> $matches [2] .
> str_repeat ('_', strlen ($matches [3]));
>
> not tested, but should work fine.
That worked. Thank you very much.
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Jesse Swensen
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