Deleting urls from a string

[etrader]

I have a string containing long text, which contains urls in the form of example.com or www.domain.com (simple plain text, not html links). How I can delete all of them. I need a php regex to delete all terms containing ".com"

 

[jamesjmann]

I have a string containing long text, which contains urls in the form of example.com or www.domain.com (simple plain text, not html links). How I can delete all of them. I need a php regex to delete all terms containing ".com"

 

you can copy and paste the code into microsoft word, then just use the "Find" tool to find all words with ".com" in it. Then copy and paste the code back into your text editing program.

[etrader]

It is a variable string. It is not a static text. It comes from a dynamic array.

[MadTechie]

$text = 'this is a test to remove URLs from text, the request was made by etrader on http://www.phpfreaks.com under the post http://www.phpfreaks.com/forums/php-coding-help/deleting-urls-from-a-string/?madeup=me 
Now the second one will not remove items like phpfreaks.com as it must start with http or www. or ftp.
but the fire example looks for the ending like .com
tests
http://domain.com <--Removed
http://www.domain.com <--Removed
http://domain.com?test=123 <--Removed
www.domain.com <--Removed';

//Option1 a- a simple example (your need to add to the domain ie .asia etc)
//remove words ending with .com etc
$newText= preg_replace('/\b[\S]*\.(?:co\.uk|com|net|org)\S*/i', '', $text );

//Option 2 (won't remove ones without either www. or http)
//remove words starting with www. or http (and uses a RFC 3986 standard)
$newText= preg_replace('/\b(?:https?:\/\/|www\.|ftp\.)(?:\([-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\)|[-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.])*(?:\([-A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$?!:,.]*\)|[A-Z0-9+&@#\/%=~_|$])/i', '', $text);
echo $newText;

[MadTechie]

of course you could run them both but changing all the $newText to $text

[etrader]

Actually, I loved the option1. It was so brilliant. Thanks a million