Stripping a VIN number from text

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VIN should have only A-Z, 0-9 characters, but not I, O, or Q
Last 6 characters of VIN should be a number
VIN should be 17 characters long

$pattern2="/^{([A-Z]{3}|\d{3})[A-Z]{2}\d{2}([A-Z]{1}|\d{1})([\d{1}|X{1})([A-Z]+\d+|\d+[A-Z]+)\d{5}$/";}

preg_match_all($pattern2, $content, $matches)

I dont get it !!!!!

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It sounds like you want to use [man]preg_replace/man with a different pattern:

$content = preg_replace('/[A-HJ-NPR-Z\d]{11}\d{6}/', '', $content);