Question

How to determine if a character is whitespace in PHP

Answer 1

$n = 'a';
if (ctype_space($n))
    echo "yes<br />";
else
    echo "no<br />";

$n = ' ';
if (ctype_space($n))
    echo "yes<br />";
else
    echo "no<br />";
    
$n = "\n";
if (ctype_space($n))
    echo "yes<br />";
else
    echo "no<br />";
    
$n = "\t";
if (ctype_space($n))
    echo "yes<br />";
else
    echo "no<br />";
 
/*
run:
  
no
yes
yes
yes
  
*/

 

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