Question

EDIT:

For those having issues with mysql data that won’t get rid of white spaces between rows. It’s because of deep tabbed indents due to an issue when copy pasting from editors/word documents.

http://bugs.mysql.com/bug.php?id=49611

Here is the bug that doesn’t allow me to fix this issue, it’s because of deep indents, it’s a MYSQL bug that won’t be fixed.

PS: Message to community, Thanks to the guys that downvoted this question without giving time to properly formulate the issue. It’s a debug process, you can let people know if you need something instead of acting rude and attacking the questioner, after all as the poster I’m likely to read and see what you need. If I knew what was needed to diagnose the issue, I would’ve found it and would not be posting here. Since I posted here, it means I don’t know where to look as to identify if the issue is a MYSQL one or a PHP one. Be polite with your community guys, don’t act like wolves trying to bite someone’s head off all the time because they didn’t give you everything you wanted right off the bat.. Take care.

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Here is the raw paste from the database:

    one two three











one two three





one two three





one two three





one two three

Why is it still being like this? I str_replaced  ‘s and \n\n\n’s . I don’t want to get rid of 2 \n’s due to the format of the text I need in between the text.

The result I’m looking for is :

 one two three

 one two three

 one two three
 one two three

Meaning max 2 \n’s.

Answer 1

This might be what you are after:

$normalized = preg_replace('~(\r?\n\r?){3+}~', "\n\n", $original);

But hey, it’s hard to say. You want to keep stack overflow a happy place, you put some effort to posting a question.