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Trim/Remove Spaces
To remove multiple occurences of whitespace characters in a string an convert them all into single spaces, use this:
<?
$text = preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $text);
?>
Strip whitespace (or other characters) from the beginning and end of a string
$variable = trim($variable);
