[thelist] REGEX Problem

[Carl Meyer]

hi Alexis,

On Wed, 12 May 2004, The Lists wrote:
> I have the following line of text, of which I want to get rid of 
> everything between and including the brackets.
> 
> C-FDRK (A320-211 84 204 AC) 2024 20040506 AC0632 (CYUL-CYHZ)
> ereg_replace("\(.*.\) ","",$message[$i])
> 
> Which produces:
> 
> C-FDRK 2024 20040506 AC0632 (CYUL-CYHZ)

Use preg_replace - it's faster and better than ereg_replace.  Here's your
code:

preg_replace("/\(.*?.\)/", "", $str);

The .*? is a non-greedy wildcard, making the space at the end of your regex
unnecessary, thus solving the end-of-line problem.  If for some reason you
can't use preg_replace, ereg_replace doesn't support the .*? syntax. 
Instead, you can use:

ereg_replace("\([^\)]*.\)", "", $str);

HTH,

Carl