Question

i want a php function probably regular expression to find and replace a string that starts with a constant string and ends up with a specific string and the text mentioned within those strings.. e.g.,

[Starting String]..anything.. [Ending String]

and i want to remove above pattern of string with empty space.. Kindly advise!!

Answer 1

$str = preg_replace('/' . preg_quote('[Starting String]') . 
                          '.*?' .
                          preg_quote('[Ending String]') . '/', '', $str);

preg_quote is used to be sure that you will not break the regexp with some specific for regexp characters in your ‘Starting’ and ‘Ending’ strings, like []

For $str = ' blah blah [Starting String] something [Ending String] blah blah'; the result would be blah blah blah blah