Question

i need to remove the next word of search string.. i have search array like array(‘aa’,’bb’,’é’);

This is my paragraph ‘Hello, this is a test paragraph aa 123 test bb 456’.

In this paragraph i need to remove 123 and 456.

$pattern        = "/\bé\b/i";
$check_string       = preg_match($pattern,'Hello, this is a test paragraph aa 123 test é 456');

How to get the next word?? Please help.

Answer 1

Here’s my solution:

<?php

//Initialization
$search = array('aa','bb','é');
$string = "Hello, this is a test paragraph aa 123 test bb 456";

//This will form (aa|bb|é), for the regex pattern
$search_string = "(".implode("|",$search).")";

//Replace "<any_search_word> <the_word_after_that>" with "<any_search_word>"
$string = preg_replace("/$search_string\s+(\S+)/","$1", $string);

var_dump($string);

You replace “SEARCH_WORD NEXT_WORD” with “SEARCH_WORD”, thus eliminating “NEXT_WORD”.