How to concatenate letters / words if it contains "&" and there is space between them?
Example:
A & E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA
EMPRESA P & C CONSTRUCAO LTDA
CAMARAO & CIA FULANO DE TAL - ME
// OUTPUT
A&E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA
EMPRESA P&C CONSTRUCAO LTDA
CAMARAO&CIA FULANO DE TAL - ME
You can use preg_replace to replace the occurrence of & .
preg_replace("/ *& */", "&", $string);
With this regex will replace spaces that exist before & after &.
*: indicates that the previous parameter occurs once or several times.
In this case, we have that can exist: AS & DFG, AS & DFG, AS & DFG, AS & DFG, in all these cases it will match and execute replace.
Example:
$example = "A & E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA";
$out = preg_replace("/ *& */", "&", $example);
echo $out; // A&E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA
I do not understand PHP, but try it there:
A 0 & 0 E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA
COMPANY P & C CONSTRUCTION LTD
or
A \s & \s E COMERCIO DE ALGUMA COISA LTDA
COMPANY P & C CONSTRUCTION LTD