How to trim a value in php?

Question

I'm trying to take a value from some variable which looks like this:

$ a= '[custom:data-rekrutacji]';

using [custom:data-rekrutacji] token which I've already defined which should contain the value: 2015-08-11 13:00:00, but if I check it using var_dump() as below:

var_dump($a);

I'm getting something like this:

string(24) "
2015-08-11 13:00:00

"

However I would like to have only this (as below) so I can use function strtotime($a):

2015-08-11 13:00:00

Is it possible to trim this?

I've tried in this way, but without success:

$a= '[custom:data-rekrutacji]';
trim($a);
echo strtotime($a);

You'll have to figure out *where* the `[placeholder]` gets swapped for a datetime string. That's also where the extraneous linebreaks originate. And where they should be trimmed. — mario, Aug 09 '15 at 09:35

Kevin P. · Answer 1 · 2015-08-09T10:07:11.303

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Have you tried saving the change:

$a = trim($a);

$a= '[custom:data-rekrutacji]';
$a = trim($a);
echo strtotime($a);

EDIT:

If your variable has the correct values it should output correctly.

$a= "    2015-08-11 13:00:00    ";
$a = trim($a);
echo "Trimmed: [".$a."]\n";
echo strtotime($a);

Code between the [ ] shows it was trimmed correctly, the next one should return the time in an int.

This is the result I get:

Trimmed: [2015-08-11 13:00:00]
1439290800

edited Aug 09 '15 at 10:07

answered Aug 09 '15 at 09:36

Kevin P.

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it returns nothing after: echo strtotime($a); – Anna K Aug 09 '15 at 09:53
Make sure the initial $a contains the data you want. I'll update the example using the values you had. – Kevin P. Aug 09 '15 at 10:03

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Aug 09 '15 at 10:15

When using trim() function, remember it returns a string, not changing the existing one. So to make it work, you should do:

$a = trim($a);

instead of just:

trim($a);

As this function returns a string with whitespace stripped from the beginning and end of str.

How to trim a value in php?

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