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Nikhil Khullar
Nikhil Khullar

Reputation: 733

Need a regulear expression to be used with preg_replace() in PHP

I intend to replace all the strings starting as style=" having anything in-between and ending with " . Am trying to use this call but it isn't working:

preg_replace('/style="*"/', '', $feed[$x]['desc']);

It is replacing only style=" and leaving the rest intact e.g. for style="border:1px solid red" am still getting border:1px solid red" after the replacement, which means that the * wildcard is wrong to be used here. How can I indicate that there can be anything in-between "" then ?

Thanks in advance !

Upvotes: 0

Views: 51

Answers (2)

Sindhara
Sindhara

Reputation: 1473

in your pattern the wildcars is for the " You should use ".*?" or something like this

Upvotes: 0

jcomeau_ictx
jcomeau_ictx

Reputation: 38442

you obviously want everything except a quote character, so use /style="[^"]*"/

in regexes, the asterisk means "0 or more repetitions of the previous character"

Upvotes: 1

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