Hi,
I am an average user in PHP however am not used in string processing etc... and am facing this problem... I'm having data like:
ABCDEF [abc]
ADDDD [xxy3]
and i want it to be ABCDEF and ADDDD after i process it.. In other words i want to remove all things that are in square brackets including the square brackets (in any way or length)...
Can anyone help me?
Thanks
Sigarru
removing brackets and things in brackets
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Re: removing brackets and things in brackets
Let me know how this works:
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<?php
$data = 'ABCDEF [dfsgfd]';
$data = trim($data);
$pattern = '/\[\w*?\]/';
$clean = trim(preg_replace($pattern, '', $data));
echo 'Before: ' . $data . '<p />';
echo 'After: ' . $clean . '<p />';
exit;