str_replace with wildcard help ??

[rayzun]

Any ideas to use a wildcard for numbers between brackets, 4-5 digits in length ??

example:
.sflor/12345/

my attempts - non-working

$page = str_replace (".sflor/??WILDCARD??/", "", $page);
$page = str_replace (".sflor/./", "", $page);
$page = str_replace (".sflor/[0-9]/", "", $page);

ideas welcomed.

[bradgrafelman]

Try using a regular expression function, e.g. [man]preg_replace/man with a pattern like:

$pattern = '@\.sflor/[0-9]{4,5}/@';

If you need it to be case-insensitive, add an 'i' after the last '@' sign.