Why doesn't my str_replace wildcard not work?

I'm trying to remove the contents of everything insides () brackets.

<? $test = '(test)';
$test = str_replace('("[^"]*")', 'test', $test);
echo $test; ?>

The above doesn't work, can someone help?

 

you cant use regular expressions with str_replace, you should use preg_replace
http://mx.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php

 

str_replace only replaces a string with a string.

Try preg_replace() or ereg_replace() that uses regular expressions.

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