html - How to convert multiple <br/> tag to a single <br/> tag in php

Question

Wanted to convert

<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>
<br/>

into

<br/>

Answer 1

You can do this with a regular expression:

preg_replace("/(<brs*/?>s*)+/", "<br/>", $input);

This if you pass in your source HTML, this will return a string with a single <br/> replacing every run of them.