Question

I have string like below,

$string = "test coontevt  first  second";

i need to remove the string starts with .

i already use this one,

$string12 = preg_replace('/)/i', '', $string);

but i get empty string only.

Finally i want result for the above string is,

$string ="test coontevt first second".

How can i do this using regular expression?.

plz help me?

Answer 1

The character [ is a regex meta-character. TO match a literal [ you need to escape it.

$string12 = preg_replace('/\/i', '', $string);

or

$string12 = preg_replace('/\]+\]/i', '', $string);