Question

I have looked around but couldn’t find an appropiate solution.

I have this string

$area = array("Some Text area 1", "Some Text area 2", "Some Text area 33", "Some Text area 40")

I want to construct a preg_replace that would remove the word “area” and the 1 or 2 digit number that follows.

I can do this to remove “area 1”

$area = preg_replace('/area 1/','', $area);

I can keep repeating this to remove other matches but it’s not very efficiant.

Can I remove the pattern with just one preg_replace?

Thanks in advance

Answer 1

$area = preg_replace('/area [0-9]+/','', $area);

Will remove all matches which have the text ‘area’ followed by a number.