replace wildcards in string

[violinrocker]

the format of the initial link is

 

http://bs.something.com/gghs-hc/09889/1442/importantparthere      i want it to look like

http://something.com/v/importantparthere

 

i want to remove gghs-hc/09889/1442 (which are dynamic)

 

i tried...

$link = preg_replace( "http://bs.something.com/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/", "http://www.something.com/v/", $link);

 

but its having an error

[salathe]

The error should give you a hint. If not, post it here and we can guide you. (The problem is very clear already, but handing folks answers isn't really helping at all!)

[violinrocker]

problem is... it would not accept / as a delimiter and it doesnt want alphanumeric and backslashes...

[Jessica]

Is it always a .com? If the url is always the same, I'd remove everything after the .com (but I hate regex. )

[sasa]

add delimiter to your regex pattern

<?php
$link = 'http://bs.something.com/gghs-hc/09889/1442/importantparthere      i want it to look like';
$link = preg_replace( "#http://bs.something.com/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/([^/\.]+)/#", "http://www.something.com/v/", $link);
echo $link;
?>

[violinrocker]

^ thanks this works... was a big help giving out a suggestion instantly =D

[salathe]

In case you haven't read already, there is a nice section in the PHP manual on using regular expressions. Relevant to the code posted above is the section on delimiters.