I want to delete this from a string:
[QUOTE=*] * [/QUOTE]
.* kan be anything
Can anyone please provide a pattern that I can use?
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A:
$string = preg_replace('/\[QUOTE=[^\]]*\].*\[\/QUOTE\]/', '', $string);
Jhong
2010-07-31 10:35:38
thanks! you're great! :D
Jay
2010-07-31 11:36:18
Ha! Thanks... don't know about that. Feel free to mark my answer as accepted :-)
Jhong
2010-07-31 12:11:31
seems to work unless there's a <br /> inside de quote tags. Then it doesn;t recognize it as the same pattern
Jay
2010-07-31 12:47:54
It should work with <br />, but it will not match if newlines (\n) are present.add the 's' modifier to the end (after the final '/') to let it match over newlines. However, you might have to also make the ".*" ungreedy by adding a '?' after it.
Jhong
2010-07-31 13:06:10
not sure (yet) what an s modifier is, but it worked :) thnx again
Jay
2010-07-31 13:36:52
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A:
Jhongs answer is perfect, it will leave you with the content from the both *'s.
However, if you need the parts separately you can make a small adjustment and add capturing groups like so:
if (preg_match('%\[QUOTE=([^\]]*)\](.*)\[/QUOTE\]%', $subject, $matches))
{
...
}
The *'s will be at $matches[1] and $matches[2].
Blizz
2010-07-31 10:45:50