Question

Let’s say I have a variable $foo:

$foo = "   a          a             blablabla          a        a";

But when I do var_dump($foo) the following gets outputted:

string(57) " a a blablabla a a"

It’s like the length (57 in this case) it’s correct and it counts the spaces, but it doesn’t display them.
How can I display the full string, including the multiple spaces in between the other characters?

Answer 1

If you use <pre> tag the text appears in the brower as you typed it. Couple of links:

• http://www.tizag.com/htmlT/htmlpre.php
• http://www.htmlcodetutorial.com/linepar/_PRE.html

You could also replace spaces with non breaking space  .

Web browsers ignore a lot white space in the code which is nice. Otherwise we wouldn’t be able to intend our source code or use newlines much…