str_replace problem in php

I want to strip all spaces 开发者_JAVA技巧that are not between two words? The script says it all:)

$string = "              bah bah    bah  ";
$string = str_replace("/w /w", "+", $string);
// i want string to look like this:
$string = "bah+bah+bah"; 

The idea is that i want to get rid of all unnecessary spaces(not only at the beginning and end)

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trim will remove the whitespace at the beginning and end:

$string = trim($string);
echo str_replace(" ", "+", $string);

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Can you not just trim whitespace and use urlencode() to convert the interior spaces to +? If you have other characters which cannot tolerate being url encoded, this will not work. But we don't know your full requirements.

urlencode(trim($string));


$string = "              bah bah";
echo urlencode(trim($string));

// bah+bah

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$string = str_replace("/w /w", "+", trim($string));

trim() deletes all unnecessary spaces