Question

I have bio information inside a variable:

$bio = ‘text, text, text…’;

I trim that text and use rtrim php function at the end

trim($bio);
rtrim($bio,',.;:- _!$&#'); 

The problem is that sometimes the bio information has a structure like this:

$bio = 'hello, i am jason!and i like cars,sports,beer and boats, tv, papers.';

Is there a way to add spaces when two words separated by punctuation marks are not delimited by spaces? Like “i am jason!and” or “cars,sports,beer”

$bio should be:

$bio = 'hello, i am jason and i like cars, sports, beer and boats, tv, papers.';

Thank you!

Answer 1

You could always have a loop that checks each index of the string, and if it equals one of the given punctuations you have, create a new string such as

$bio = substr($bio,0,index of punctuation+1)." ".substr($bio,index of punctuation+1,length     of bio);

It’s bulky for sure but should get the job done.