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Remove Brackets Regular expression


BrettCarr

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Hi Guys I'm trying to remove the brackets around a string with preg_replace

I seem to able to remove the first bracket but not the last. Here are my attempts.....

heres the string

$testemail = '(bobbyboo@sample.com.au)';
       echo $testemail;
      
       $testemail2 = trim(preg_replace('/^[\(]/', '', $testemail));
       
            echo $testemail2."<br />";
            
            
            $testemail3 = trim(preg_replace('/$\)/','', $testemail2));
            
            echo $testemail3."<br />";
       
            

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That should be:

 

$testemail3 = trim(preg_replace('/\)$/','', $testemail2));

 

Because the end of the string, denoted by "$", occurs after the final bracket.

 

If you are ok with removing all brackets instead of just the first and the last you can use

 

str_replace(array('(', ')'), '', $string);

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