Question

How to trim multiple characters at begin and end of string.
string should be something like {Hello {W}orld}.
i want to trim both { and } at begin and end.

don’t want to use multiple trim function.

Answer 1

Use the optional second argument to trim which allows you to specify the list of characters to trim:

<?php
$str = "{Hello {W}orld}";
$str = trim($str, "{}");

echo "Trimmed: $str";

Output:

Trimmed: Hello {W}orld