Php preg_replace help

PHP
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Hello forums I’m trying to strip the [IMG] bbcode from vbulletin posted data

I tried this:


$data = 'test text [IMG]the url to the image[/IMG]';
$a = preg_replace('/[IMG].[/IMG]/i', ' ', $data);
echo $a;

uhmm didn’t work , what is wrong with my regular expression? I want it to strip everything from

Any ideas?

Thanks

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You have some regex control characters in there which need escaping with \


$data = 'test text [IMG]the url to the image[/IMG]';
$a = preg_replace('/(\\[IMG\\].*\\[\\/IMG\\])/i', ' ', $data);
echo $a;

Hopefully they will make it through the SP editor …

Edit:

Also, you did not capture the intended match with (). Tested this in my pastebin, but had to double slash my slashes, the above should work though

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Many thanks Cup it works, I thought all characters was supposed to be just a period . but it should be .*

thanks you look great!