Want the best way to trim a sting in javascript?
A while ago, I came across a post on such a subject. It was written a few years ago but it’s still as relevant and useful as ever.
Faster Javascript Trim
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Tag Archives: regex
Regular expression to remove excess whitespace
Neat way of removing excess whitespace and tabbing from strings.
$string = "Tom\tThumb\t is sooooooo\t\t\tdumb"; $string = preg_replace( '/\s+/', ' ', $string ); echo $string; //will echo "Tom Thumb is sooooooo dumb"
Addslashes and stripslashes in Javascript
Simple one. If you need to add/remove escape slashes to/from a string, use the following code.
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Remove non-UTF8 characters from string with PHP
If you have come across the cursed ‘Invalid Character‘ error while using PHP’s XML or JSON parser then you may be interested in this.
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Regular Expressions
First off, regular expressions are great.
They are a handy quick way to validate or parse data and you can use them in almost all languages. But of all things, I forget neat regex’s and in fairness they are a pita to recall as the syntax is plain nutty.
This is where it ends. I am going to reference all the neat regex’s in this blog as I come across them rather than rely on mother Google.
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