Can't get the right regexp

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  14 years ago

  by jnptloh

  John Peter Loh

  Sta. Rosa, Philippines

  Joined 18 years ago
  Hi
  
  I'm trying to remove excess newline characters from a string passed from a file_get_contents. I'm using preg_replace with /\n{2,}+/s to be replaced with "". I tried it with a string that I set, "a\n\n\n\n\nb" that returned the result that I wanted ("a\nb"). But the one from file_get_contents doesn't get replaced. I checked with addcslashes if it had other characters like \r, but it didn't seem to have them.
  
  My suspect is my regular expression.
  
  Thanks!
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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