string replacement

[corporateboy]

I have a variable of text which contains two emails its called

$content

how do I strip out both emails (which are padded with round brackets in the variable) and display without the emails showing!

should be easy but I'm stuck at doing two!

[Shrike]

I assume you mean email addresses? There are loads of regular expressions on this board for matching email addresses. I suggest you do a search.

[mtimdog]

hmmm....this might work

$first=true;
$new_content='';
$con=explode('(',$content);
foreach($con as $arr){
if ($first){//don't look for the other )
$first=false;
$new_content=$arr;
}else{

$mid=explode( ')',$arr,2); 
$new_content.=" ".$mid[1];

}
}

Note: if the number of ( is not equal to ) in $content, than this won't work as expected

Now, $new_content should be the $content without any emails in ().