Stripping white space from file but preserving in code tags

> Stripping white space from file but preserving in code tags. Another thing i found difficult but this seems to work for now /* strip out excess where not in code tags*/ /* all the white space with single space */ $data = preg_replace('/(?!(?:[^|[^>]+))(\s)/i'," ", trim($data)); /* all the double spaces */ $data = preg_replace("/(?!(?:[^|[^>]+))( ){2,}/"," ",$data); /* all the > < spaces with >< */ $data = preg_replace("/(?!(?:[^|[^>]+))(>