The easiet possible way...

[jzimmerlin]

Let's say I have a string that is... 01234567890abcd[ignorethis]blahblahblah

Is there a method that can remove the stuff inside of the [ ]?

[haaglin]

Take a look at php's ereg() function. complicated, but will do the job.

look at http://www.regular-expressions.info/tutorial.html for some idea of what it can do.

[Caesar]

For future reference, take a look at http://www.php.net first. A little effort before asking questions is always appreciated.

Now...I basically did it for you here:

[code]<?php

  $string = '01234567890abcd[ignorethis]blahblahblah';

  preg_match('/[a-z0-9]+(\[[a-z0-9]+\])[a-z0-9]+/',$string,$matches);
 
  $cleantxt = str_replace($matches[1],'',$matches);
  $ignoredtxt = $matches[1];
 
  echo"$cleantxt[0]";
  // 01234567890abcdblahblahblah

?> [/code]

[Nicklas]

[code=php:0]<?php

$string = '01234567890abcd[ignorethis]blahblahblah';
echo preg_replace('/\[.*]/', '', $string);

?>[/code]