The workstation I'm on is only running 4.0.4...
perhaps it's time to upgrade. :)

I'll try it again.

On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 10:30:18 -0400 "Jack Dempsey" wrote:

> Actually, it does. I just ran it again with that exact code. What
> version of php are you running? 
> Here's a direct copy/paste of what I get:
> 
> <code>
> <?
> $text = "This  contans    white space   .";
> $matches = preg_split("/(\s+)/",$text,-1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);  
> echo "<pre>[$text]<br>[". implode('',$matches)."]</pre>";
> ?>
> </code>
> 
> <ouput>
> <pre>[This  contans    white space   .]<br>[This  contans    white space
> .]</pre>
> </output>
> 
> Are you running php >= 4.0.5?
> 
> jack
> -----Original Message-----
> From: Garth Dahlstrom [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]] 
> Sent: Friday, July 20, 2001 10:06 AM
> To: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Cc: [EMAIL PROTECTED]; [EMAIL PROTECTED]
> Subject: Re: [PHP] Re: split on whitespace, preserving whitespace...
> 
> On Fri, 20 Jul 2001 09:32:00 -0400 "Jack Dempsey" wrote:
> 
> > 
> > $text = "This  contans    white space   .";
> > $matches = preg_split("/(\s+)/",$text,-1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE);
> > echo implode('',$matches);
> 
> Nope that doesn't do it.
> here's the test:
> echo "<pre>[$text]<br>[". implode('',$matches)."]</pre>";
> 
> here's the output:
> [This  contans    white space   .]
> [Thiscontanswhitespace.]
> 
> If it were working the two lines should be identical.
> 
> 
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> > -----Original Message-----
> > mmm... yeah...  That's what I had before
> > (acutally I was using the alias split)...
> > it does NOT however preserve the areas
> > of white space. 
> > 
> > Instead the target of:
> > > > $wordsarr = ('This','  ','contans','    ','white',' ','space','
> > ','.')
> > 
> > You get:
> > > > $wordsarr = ('This','','contans','','white','space','','.')
> > 
> > which has totally destroyed the whitespace I'm trying to 
> > keep intacted.
> 
> 
> 
> 
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