Question

I’m using this /\([^\S\n]*(.*)[^\S\n]*\)/ regex to match what is inside brackets, and it works good except when there are trailing spaces, it matches them.

In for example ( test1 test2 ) I would like to match test1 test2, but I match test1 test2_ (I wrote underscore, but it’s trailing space).

Any idea how to remove this trailing space from my match?

I’m using PHP preg_replace function.

Answer 1

Try this

/\(\s*([^)]+?)\s*\)/

Result:

$reg = '/\(\s*([^)]+?)\s*\)/';

var_dump( preg_replace( $reg, '$1', "( test1 test2 )" ) );

//string(11) "test1 test2"