I have a string like: Bruce A Johnson
I want it to be Bruce Johnson.
How do I remove the single A from the string with PHP? (all 'words' of only 1 character need to be removed)
Something like this:
preg_replace('/\b\w\b\s?/', '', $string);
This says remove any single word character that has a word boundary on either side and optionally a trailing space.
Thus b test a test foo c will yield test test foo.
If you might have some trailing punctuation (like Bruce A. Johnson) you can get rid of the punctuation with this expression:
preg_replace('/\b\w\b(\s|.\s)?/', '', $string);
// 'b test a, test foo c' -> 'test test foo'
Use explode() to split up the three words, remove the middle element of the returned array, and then implode() to rejoin the string.