Question

I am having some troubles getting some regex to work to remove some text, I need [text] removing from [text][maybehere]anytext.

So basically the first set of [] and whatever is in them. The rest of the text can contain anything including spaces and may have another set of [].

I have this: /\[.*\]/ but it is removing all of the brakets and contents.

I am using PHP

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Note the 4th parameter (replace limit) in preg_replace:

$str = preg_replace('/\[[^\]]*\]/', '', $str, 1);