how to remove multiple slashes in URI with 'PREG' or 'HTACCESS'

Question

how to remove multiple slashes in URI with \'PREG\' or \'HTACCESS\'

site.com/edition/new/// -> site.com/edition/new/

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site.com/edition///new/ -> site.co

Answer 1

using the plus symbol + in regex means the occurrence of one or more of the previous character. So we can add it in a preg_replace to replace the occurrence of one or more / by just one of them

   $url =  "site.com/edition/new///";

$newUrl = preg_replace('/(\/+)/','/',$url);

// now it should be replace with the correct single forward slash
echo $newUrl