Question

Okay, I have a php loop that generates a string like this:

$string = "1st fee - $500.00<BR>
           2nd fee - $500.00<BR>
           3rd fee - $750.00<BR>"

I’d like to remove the dollar amount but I’m not sure it’s even possible. I’ve been trying to use preg_replace to remove everything between $ and < including the $ but not the < to get something like this:

   $string = "1st fee - <BR>
               2nd fee - <BR>
               3rd fee - <BR>"

Unfortunately for me, I have to leave the - because sometimes there will be multiple instances of the - on a single line like so:

$string = "1st fee - Brian - $500.00<BR>
           2nd fee - John - $500.00<BR>
           3rd fee - Bob - $750.00<BR>"

Any help would be greatly appreciated, even if it’s just telling me give up, not possible. Thanks in advance!

Answer 1

So basically you just want to match everyhing from - $ until the first left arrow in the <br>. The first part of the pattern - \\$ (need to escape the $ since that is a regex keyword) will match the beginning part of what you want removed, and then [^<]* will take everything until it finds a left arrow.

$string = "1st fee - Brian - $500.00<BR>
           2nd fee - John - $500.00<BR>
           3rd fee - Bob - $750.00<BR>";

$replaced = preg_replace("# - \\$[^<]*#", "", $string);

Output:

string '1st fee - Brian<BR>
        2nd fee - John<BR>
        3rd fee - Bob<BR>'