Regex eregi problem

[rfontaine]

I have a bunch of text with numbered lines that look like this:

[11] blah blah blah
[12] more text
[13] and even more text
[14] etc

I am trying to make a regular expression that gets rid of
all the numbers and their brackets.

I came up with something like this but the problem is getting rid of the brackets correctly:

$the_text = ereg_replace("[\[0-9\]]", "", $the_text);

Any ideas what is wrong?

Thank you in advance :-)

[rfontaine]

anyone?

[coopster]

$string = preg_replace("/\[[0-9]+\]/", '', $string);

The [0-9] is what is referred to as a character class so it has to be enclosed in brackets. The plus (+) sign says to match one or more of them.

[rfontaine]

Excellent Coopster! It works :-)

[xfinx]

Better use perl ;-)

$the_text =~ s/[\[0-9\]]//;

:P

[coopster]

preg_replace is a Perl-Compatible Regular Expression Function [php.net].

However, if you want to use perl you still have to get the regular expression correct ;)

$string =~ s/\[[0-9]+\]//g;