basic find/replace regex

[Good2CU]

I want to replace any occurences of / ./ or ../ at the begining of a string with nothing, could be multiple ../../../, but I don't want to trim any slashes once the non . or / text starts.

Is there any easy way to do this without regex?

this is what I'm thinking:

$new_string = preg_replace('^{[.|/]*[.|/]',} '', $to_search);

I'm not sure about the regex itself? What I'm trying to say is replace any . or / before anything that's not . or / within nothing ''

Thanks in advance.

[NogDog]

'#^\.{0,2}/#'

...should do the trick.

[Good2CU]

this will match a forward slash as well? (and not a forward slash between alpha-numeric strings)

[NogDog]

Good2CU;10910380 wrote:

this will match a forward slash as well? (and not a forward slash between alpha-numeric strings)

Yes, but to meet your requirement for multiple occurrences of the pattern:

'#^(\.{0,2}/)+#'