Question

I want to replace all text what start with “{” and end with “}” including those “{” and “}”. Text between them may be anything. =(
I guess I need to use regex’s there.

Let’s imagine that $this->output is string that I want to replace. So I got this far… It don’t work by the way. =(

$this->output = preg_replace( '/{*(.*)*}/', $this->output, $this->output );

Answer 1

You need to escape the *:

'/{\*(.*)\*}/'

Otherwise * is interpreted as quantifier. Furthermore, to have .* not to match as much as possible, make the * quantifier reluctant:

'/{\*(.*?)\*}/'