php regex, strip spaces between numbers (with a catch)...
Posted: Sat Apr 16, 2011 6:19 pm
two part question...
PART 1...
part one is really simple, but for some reason it's just not happening for me... i need to find and replace all numbers which have a space between them...
ex: 9 0 8would become 908 & 6 9 would become 69
what're the proper preg_replace attributes i'd need to achieve this?
PART 2...
this one is a little tricky... i also have some numbers like 1,000 that are showing up as 1 ,000 or 1, 000... so i need to get rid of the unwanted space, but there's a catch... if the line which contains the number we're potentially replacing also contains the string respective, then i need leave the space intact. the reason being, some number/comma combinations represent two separate values as opposed to a thousand delimiter (this case can be identified by the line containing somewhere the string respective).
thanks so much
PART 1...
part one is really simple, but for some reason it's just not happening for me... i need to find and replace all numbers which have a space between them...
ex: 9 0 8would become 908 & 6 9 would become 69
what're the proper preg_replace attributes i'd need to achieve this?
PART 2...
this one is a little tricky... i also have some numbers like 1,000 that are showing up as 1 ,000 or 1, 000... so i need to get rid of the unwanted space, but there's a catch... if the line which contains the number we're potentially replacing also contains the string respective, then i need leave the space intact. the reason being, some number/comma combinations represent two separate values as opposed to a thousand delimiter (this case can be identified by the line containing somewhere the string respective).
thanks so much