Question

We have mobile numbers stored in db in format 0789 121 928

We need to remove the blank spaces from the number so it is 0789121928

This is what I have used before to remove ‘,’ in $ fields, and am trying to modify.

<?php
$value1A = $row_person_select['mobile'];
$value1A = preg_replace("|,|","",$value1A); // Strips out commas in incoming value ie 2,340.00 > 2340.00
$totalA = $value1A;
echo $totalA; 
?>

I have tried the obvious of replacing the ‘,’ with ‘ ‘ but does not work?

Ideas? Thank you.

Answer 1

You don’t need a regular expression here.

$mobile = str_replace(" ", "", $row_person_select['mobile']);

str_replace is sufficient if you just want to remove spaces.

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But just to answer the actual question, you can use "|\s|" with preg_replace to remove any whitespace characters.