Remove strings

[sandy1028]

How to remove any characters after '<br />' in a string.

 

If input string is :

 

By rd, RaeAnn Martin, Emily Sheene and Ebony Alcorn.<br /><br /> <p>Danville High School students:

 

Output should be "By rd, RaeAnn Martin, Emily Sheene and Ebony Alcorn."

[Psycho]

$input = "By rd, RaeAnn Martin, Emily Sheene and Ebony Alcorn.<br /><br /> <p>Danville High School students:";

$output = preg_replace('#<br \/>.*#', '', $input);

[jim_keller]

I would actually change the regex above to match <br />, < BR>, < br / >, etc by doing the following. It's never good to assume you're getting well formed HTML:

 

$input = "By rd, RaeAnn Martin, Emily Sheene and Ebony Alcorn.<br /><br /> <p>Danville High School students:";

$output = preg_replace('#<\s*br\s*\/?\s*>.*#i', '', $input);