Originally Posted by sarettah

You have something other than a space in there.

So, instead of just doing the replace do a trim when you put the words together.

Here:

array_push($cwords, $curword . $word);

Change to

array_push($cwords, trim($curword) . trim($word));

or

Here:

array_push($words, strip_newlines(fgets($handle)));

change to

array_push($words, trim(strip_newlines(fgets($handle))));

Trim takes white space (not just blanks) from the beginning and end of the string.

Edited in:

A better place for it is in the strip_newlines function actually.

Changing return $str; to return trim($str); will accomplish the exact same thing with slightly less typing. It depends on how you would interpret what you want the strip_newlines function to be as to whether it is in the right place.