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Awais Qarni
Awais Qarni

Reputation: 18016

How to remove part of the string from one character to another in php

I have a URL string like 

http://mydomain.com/status/statusPages/state/stack:3/my_link_id:1#state-9

I want to remove my_link_id:1 from this string. I know I can use any string replace function like 

$goodUrl = str_replace('my_link_id:1', '', $badUrl);

But the problem is, the integer part is dynamic. I mean in my_link_id:1 the 1 is dynamic. It is the ID of the link and it can be from 0 to any number. So I want to remove my_link_id:along with any dynamic number from the string.

What I think I should remove part of the string from last / to #. But how can I do that?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 111

Answers (3)

Muhammad Awais
Muhammad Awais

Reputation: 219

May following help you

$strUrl = "http://mydomain.com/status/statusPages/state/stack:3/my_link_id:1#state-9";
$finalUrl = preg_replace('/(my_link_id:[0-9]+)/i', '', $strUrl);
echo $finalUrl;

and If you want remove also last / and # you follow this code

$strUrl = "http://mydomain.com/status/statusPages/state/stack:3/my_link_id:1#state-9";
$finalUrl = preg_replace('/(\/my_link_id:[0-9]+#)/i', '', $strUrl);
echo $finalUrl;

Upvotes: 0

Ananth
Ananth

Reputation: 1560

You can use preg_replace() php function 

http://in1.php.net/preg_replace

CODE: 

  <?php  $string = "http://mydomain.com/status/statusPages/state/stack:3/my_link_id:1#state-9";       
       echo  $result = preg_replace('/(my_link_id:[0-9]+)/si', '', $string);
    ?>

Output : 

http://mydomain.com/status/statusPages/state/stack:3/#state-9

Upvotes: 0

Iłya Bursov
Iłya Bursov

Reputation: 24229

you can use regular expressions:

$goodUrl = preg_replace('/(my_link_id:[0-9]+)/ig', '', $badUrl);

Upvotes: 1

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