Remove new lines from string

Question

$string = "
put returns between paragraphs

for linebreak add 2 spaces at end

";

Want to remove all new lines from string.

I've this regex, it can catch all of them, the problem is I don't know with which function should I use it.

/\r\n|\r|\n/

$string should become:

$string = "put returns between paragraphs for linebreak add 2 spaces at end ";

Answer 1

Just use preg_replace()

$string = preg_replace('~[\r\n]+~', '', $string);

You could get away with str_replace() on this one, although the code doesn't look as clean:

$string = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), '', $string);

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Answer 2

$string = str_replace(array("\n", "\r"), ' ', $string);

Answer 3

PCRE regex replacements can be done using preg_replace: http://php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

$new_string = preg_replace("/\r\n|\r|\n/", ' ', $old_string);

Would replace new line or return characters with a space. If you don't want anything to replace them, change the 2nd argument to ''.

Answer 4

Use this:

replace series of newlines with an empty string:

$string = preg_replace("/[\\n\\r]+/", "", $string);

or you probably want to replace newlines with a single space:

$string = preg_replace("/[\\n\\r]+/", " ", $string);

Answer 5

You should use str_replace for its speed and using double quotes with an array

str_replace(array("\r\n","\r"),"",$string);

Answer 6

this is the pattern I would use

$string = preg_replace('@[\s]{2,}@',' ',$string);

Answer 7

A few comments on the accepted answer:

The + means "1 or more". I don't think you need to repeat \s. I think you can simply write '/\s+/'.

Also, if you want to remove whitespace first and last in the string, add trim.

With these modifications, the code would be:

$string = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', trim($string));