preg_replace question

[mikerh9]

The line of code below, suppose to replace string that starts from
Received and ends from Reply.
So if string is sfsfsfsfReceiveddasdadadadReply, should return
sfsfsfsf // only this.

preg_replace("^{Received.Reply$","",} $data);

Why it is not doing this?

[tsinka]

Hi,

try something like

preg_replace("§Received.*?Reply§si","", $data);

Just one . means one character.

EDIT:

§ define the start and end of the pattern
s and i are pattern modifiers and mean:

s: multi line
i: case insensitive

Thomas