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Asked: 2026-05-26T18:55:48+00:00

I’m trying to resolve a preg_replace mistery with no success, perhaps you can help

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I’m trying to resolve a preg_replace mistery with no success, perhaps you can help me. I have this sentence:

$string = preg_replace("/\[_BEGIN_\](.*?)\[_END_\]/", '', $string);

It removes all content between any [_BEGIN_] and [_END_] meta-tags. For example applied to:

"The [_BEGIN_] quick brown [_END_]fox jumps over the lazy dog"

gives as result:

"The fox jumps over the lazy dog"

The problem is it works in my development machine (Ubuntu 9.10, PHP v5.2.10) but in my production site (Gentoo 1.6.14, PHP v5.2.5-pl1-gentoo) it fails (preg_replace returns the same input string).

There is any problem with the regex used? How can I fix this problem? How to debug it? Any clue will be welcome. Thanks.

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  1. Editorial Team

    I don’t see \C anywhere in the list of escape sequences. Shouldn’t it be (.*?) instead of (\C*?)?

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