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How to strip all spaces out of a string in php

November 27, 2013 by Andrei PHP Snippets, Snippets No comments

How to strip all spaces out of a string in php You have a string stored in a PHP variable, and you want to eliminate all whitespaces or spaces from that string with PHP, not only from the beginning or the end of the string. Scenario

<?php

//You want to strip all spaces from the below string and obtain "thisisjustastring"
$firstString= 'this is just a string'; 

?>

<?php

//You want to strip all spaces from the below string and obtain "thisisjustastring"

$firstString= 'this is just a string';

Solution for spaces

<?php

$firstString= 'this is just a string';
$newString = str_replace(' ', '', $firstString);
echo $newString; //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string

?>

<?php

$firstString= 'this is just a string';

$newString = str_replace(' ', '', $firstString);

echo $newString; //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string

Solution for whitespaces

<?php

$firstString= 'this is just a string';
$newString = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $firstString);
echo $newString //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string

?>

<?php

$firstString= 'this is just a string';

$newString = preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $firstString);

echo $newString //outputs "thisisjustastring" as a string