PHP Regular Expression Exercises: Remove the whitespaces from a string

Last update on December 20 2024 10:19:20 (UTC/GMT +8 hours)

Write a PHP script that removes the whitespaces from a string.

Sample string : 'The quick " " brown fox'

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Sample Solution:

PHP Code:

<?php
// Define the input string
$str1 = 'The quick " " 	 brown fox';

// Use preg_replace function to remove all whitespace characters from the string
echo preg_replace('/\s+/', '', $str1)."\n";
?>

Output:

Thequick""brownfox

Explanation:

In the exercise above,

• '$str1' variable stores the input string: 'The quick " " brown fox'.
• The "preg_replace()" function performs regular expression-based string replacement.
• The regular expression pattern /\s+/ is applied to the input string:
• \s+: Matches one or more whitespace characters.
• All matches for whitespace characters in the input string are replaced with an empty string, effectively removing them.
• The modified string with all whitespace characters removed is then echoed.

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