I assume that the text inside can change around a fair bit. If the string is of a fixed with or simple format you can just use substr() and friends, it's simpler and faster. That said, there is really two approaches that I can see with this string. You can match on the spaces to extract the 'RV-6', something like '/\s\S+\s/' should do the trick, that pulls out some non-whitespace characters from between two whitespace characters, including the whitespace characters. Then just add the () on again afterwards. The other approach would be to use preg_replace to get rid of the \(EX\) portion by replacing it with an empty string. Personally I would probably use the first technique as I generally don't like using replace functions in this way. A pattern which should match is '/\\\(.*?\)\\/', the mess of \ is because \ ( and ) all need to be escaped with a \. David phplists wrote: > Hi, > > I'm still trying to get to grips with REGEX and have hit a hurdle with > the following: > > I have this bit of text: > (\(EX\) RV-6 ) > > I want to remove the '\(EX\)' part of it > so leaving just: ( RV-6 ) > > Any suggestions would be most appreciated. > > Thanks > Alexis > -- PHP General Mailing List (http://www.php.net/) To unsubscribe, visit: http://www.php.net/unsub.php
