Need help with str_replace wildstring

[vick22]

Hi,

I have the following text:

 

London, May 1: Hi there

 

I am trying to remove everything till ':'

 

The desired output is

%20Hi%20there

 

I did this -

 

$np2 = "London, May 1: Hi there";

$i = array('-',' ','(.*):');

$j = array('','%20','');

$np = str_replace($i, $j, $np2);

echo $np;

 

I am unable to remove

London, May 1:

 

Note: The word "London" could be anything, so I am trying to get a wildcard.

[Jessica]

You'll need to use regular expressions.

[vick22]

I tried that too but was unable to get it going. Can you help me out plz?

[Jessica]

I can't because I am horrible at regex. Hopefully a mod will come and move this thread to the regex board. If you already tried, you should post what you did try so people can help you fix it.

[PFMaBiSmAd]

If you only want the part of the string after the :, there's no point in worrying about what is before the :, unless you are specifically trying to find just that pattern among a bunch of content, but you would have probably shown us if that was the case.

 

<?php
$string = "London, May 1: Hi there";
list(,$string) = explode(':',$string);
$string = str_replace(' ','%20',$string);
echo $string;

[Jessica]

That is a great point, I guess I didn't read the initial question well enough, because you're right as it's written you don't need regex.

[vick22]

Perfect!! Works very nice.