Question

I have a small problems with regex and php.
This is what i have:

8 Ball Script S Caps S S K

This is what i want:

8 Ball Script S Caps SSK

In short i need to correct every abrivations in the string dynamicly. wherever in the string that i can find something like “A B R I V”, it needs to remove the spaces “ABRIV” without screwing with everything else in the string. So that i can have a string that is something like “H I, Hello F O O World, i have B A C O N” should become “HI, Hello FOO World, i have BACON”.

This is my code so far:

$string = preg_replace("/(?<= )[A-Z](?![a-z]).(?![A-Za-z]+[a-z])/", '$0', $string);

Answer 1

This seems to do what you want:

$s = preg_replace('~(?<![A-Za-z])([A-Z]) (?=[A-Z](?![A-Za-z]))~', '$1', $s);

see a demo on ideone.com