preg_replace and wildcards

[rfighter]

Hi,

 

I am not really confident with the usage of preg_replace, and I would appreciate if someone could help me with the line of code.

 

I have a string, e.g. "sfsdfd sdfd

dfsdfsf

sfdfdf"

 

What I would like to do is replace the "

(* denoting wildcard) with just "[QUOT]".

 

Thanks!

 

^("QUOT" should be "QUOTE")

[unkwntech]

preg_replace('/ - .*/i' , '', $text);

This should do the trick

[rfighter]

preg_replace('/ - .*/i' , '', $text);

This should do the trick

 

Unfortunately that didn't work.

 

It turned:

[quote - xyz]

dfdfsdfsfsfsdsfdsfdsdsdsdsdsd

[END OF QUOTE]

 

Into:

 

[quote

 

I would like:

 

[quote]

dfdfsdfsfsfsdsfdsfdsdsdsdsdsd

[END OF QUOTE]

[nrg_alpha]

You mean something along these lines?

 

$test = '[quote - fddfd ft er] dj hsh eh eklthe he [END OF QUOTE]';
$test = preg_replace('#(\[quote)[^\]]*(])#', '[quote]', $test);
echo $test;

 

Cheers,

 

NRG