Intelligently removing excess indention from a string
- by TravisO
I'm trying to remove some excessive indention from a string, in this case it's SQL, so it can be put into a log file. So I need the find the smallest amount of indention (aka tabs) and remove it from the front of each line, but the following code ends up printing out exactly the same, any ideas?
In other words, I want to take the following
SELECT
blah
FROM
table
WHERE
id=1
and convert it to
SELECT
blah
FROM
table
WHERE
id=1
here's the code I tried and fails
$sql = '
SELECT
blah
FROM
table
WHERE
id=1
';
// it's most likely idented SQL, remove any idention
$lines = explode("\n", $sql);
$space_count = array();
foreach ( $lines as $line )
{
preg_match('/^(\t+)/', $line, $matches);
$space_count[] = strlen($matches[0]);
}
$min_tab_count = min($space_count);
$place = 0;
foreach ( $lines as $line )
{
$lines[$place] = preg_replace('/^\t{'. $min_tab_count .'}/', '', $line);
$place++;
}
$sql = implode("\n", $lines);
print '<pre>'. $sql .'</pre>';
