Complex string replace.

[poring]

Hi. I would like to do some complex string replace, but I'm a little lost. I know I should use preg_replace or something like this, but I'm not good enough at this yet. Here is what I want to do.

I have a string: 'this is some {{random}} text'

What I want to do is replace '{{random}}' with just 'random' (well not really, but I'm simplyfying here)

Of course it could be anything else than the word 'random' in the original string, I'm not supposed to know what it'll be.

Could anyone please help? Thanks.

[xblue]

In your example the simplest seems to replace {{ and }} without touching what's in between.

str_replace('{{', '', $string); and
str_replace('}}', '', $string);

[Thora_Fan]

a preg_replace version would be:

preg_replace('/{{|}}/', '', $string);

I think that will work. The | character in between the brackets like the || (or) operator. The single quotes and forward slashes are required at the beginning and end of all regular expressions (at least, that's what I've been lead to believe, I'm no RegEx guru).