help in regular expression

[jansky]

To all guru

I have a problem and im not familiar in regular expression can anyone help me .

here is the problem in my code

$sql=mysql_query("select * from products ");
while ($result=mysql_fetch_object($sql))
{
$productname=$result->prod_name;
$prod_id=$result->prod_id;
     if preg_match ( "{whatever the content }",$productname)
     preg_replace(" {whatever the content}","  ",$productname);

 echo $productname."<br>"
}

the problem is in the preg_match i dont know what to do please help me out

[Drakla]

You haven't said what you're trying to achieve.

[jansky]

well im trying to replace this {blah blah blah} with a white space

[drew010]

$new = preg_replace('/{[^}]*}/', '', $str);