Quick RegExp Job For A Bag Of Green

Green rep up for grabs for the first to give me working code that replaces:

[::anything here::]

with empty space i.e. removes it from $string.

Between the 'opening tag' [:: and the 'closing tag' ::] can be any case alpha numeric and the usual _ - @. Between those tags is an unknown amount of characters and spaces are possible.

So:

$string = "The dog was walking [::special shite-here::] on the street."

Becomes:

$string = "The dog was walking on the street."

(That actually leaves one space too many, if you wipe that as well you're star.)

I suck at RegExps.

Thanks!

 

This is how I would do it in Perl:

my $string = "The dog was walking [::special shite-here::] on the street.";
$string =~ s/\s?\[::(.*?)::]\s?/ /g;

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This also saves the data between the tags in the variable $1

 

Thanks! PHP RegExps are PErl-like I believe, do you know the PHP equivalent?

 

maybe something like:

preg_replace( "/\s?\[::(.*?)::]\s?/", " ", "The dog was walking [::special shite-here::] on the street." );

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It's just a guess though, I don't venture into PHP much, mostly Perl and Javascript these days.

 

I suck at regxps myself so i'd just use.

$myStr = "The dog was walking [::special shite-here::] on the street.";
$start = strpos($myStr,"[::") + 3;
$end = strpos($myStr, "::]");
$total = $end - $start;
$temp = substr($myStr, $start, $total);
$myStr = str_replace("[::".$temp."::]"," ", $myStr);

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Sorry, couldn't resist writing it. :-/

 

LOL, that's what I would do as well but I dislike longwinded ugly code more and more hence the RegExp whish.

I'll use it for the time being