Question

how do I strip off all white space and  ?

I have this as a input in a wrapper I create,

[b]       bold       [/b]

so before turning the text to bold, i want to strip off all white spaces and &nbsp, and turn it into [b]bold[/b],

$this->content = preg_replace("/\[(.*?)\]\s\s+(.*?)\s\s+\[\/(.*?)\]/", 
                "[$1]$2[/$3]", 
                $this->content);

but it does not work! can you help please?

Answer 1

I found another solution

$this->content = preg_replace("/\[(.*?)\]\s*(.*?)\s*\[\/(.*?)\]/", "[$1]$2[/$3]", html_entity_decode($this->content));