| [OT]: "native" English (was: reduce all spaces to one) [message #176915 is a reply to message #176913] |
Sun, 05 February 2012 10:03   |
Gregor Kofler
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Am 2012-02-05 05:02, Doug Miller meinte:
> John <john_takethisoff(at)agdp(dot)de> wrote in
> news:jgkj4t$j9l$1(at)speranza(dot)aioe(dot)org:
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>> Am 05.02.2012 00:05, schrieb Thomas 'PointedEars' Lahn:
>>>
>>> I do not think you have fully understood what I have said (maybe you
>>> want to try posting to *de*.comp.lang.php instead?). *All* presented
>>> solutions so far, including yours and mine, are "'regex' solutions".
>>> But the set of characters that are replaced differs between them.
>>>
>>
>> Thanks for the suggestions and advice : however I hope my english is
>> adequate enough to make myself understood in this NG :-))
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> Your English is more than adequate. [*] However, PointedHead's often is not. English is not his first
> language; as far as I know, German is. And he doesn't understand English, or express himself
> thereby, as well as he thinks he does. If you are a native speaker of German, you would assuredly
> communicate more clearly with him, and he with you, in your native tongue.
>
> [*] In fact, it's excellent. I'm a native speaker of American English, I've been following this thread
> since the beginning, and I had no inkling before today that you might not be a native speaker also.
I'm not a native speaker (and do have my fair share of grammar and
spelling mistakes in my postings, too), but the original posting
"what would be in PHP the equivalent of the VB .NET statement
Text = Regex.Replace(Text, "[ ]+", " ")
in order to reduce to one all the spaces between words (chr(32)) ???"
sounds a bit Yodaish to me - it's easy to understand but not what I'd
expect from a *native* speaker.
Gregor
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