Question

Anyone know how to use a php regex to remove text from a string that contains regex meta-characters?

For example –

Text-string before –

"Look at the shiny apple [word]" //where 'word' could be anything

Text-string after –

"look at the shiny apple"

Answer 1

You replace something with regex using preg_replace.

If you want to match a special character literally you have to escape the character in the regular expression using a backslash like this \[ (if you want to match a “[“).