Re: i need help

Assuming you are doing just one string at a time: <? $str = "[i:abcdef]"; #[i:bcdefg] #[i:xyzab] #[i:priftds] $regex = "/(\[i:)(\w+)(\])/i"; preg_match($regex, $str, $matches); print $str;//original string print substr($matches[2], 1, 3);//trimmed string ?> Gryffyn, Trevor wrote:

If the format is consistantly the same, try this: $somedata = "[i:aslkdfj]"; $insidedata = substr($somedata,3,strlen($somedata)-4); -TG

-----Original Message----- From: Student [mailto:coolstudprit@hotmail.com] Sent: Monday, May 17, 2004 11:42 PM To: php-general@lists.php.net; php-windows@lists.php.net Subject: [PHP-WIN] i need help Hi i was hoping if someone can help; I want to trim the following text [i:abcdef] but the inside text is different at time eg abcdef, bcdefg, etc etc how can i trim [i:(some text here)] so that i can replace them with nothing. eg these are to be trimmed. [i:abcdef] [i:bcdefg] [i:xyzab] [i:priftds] how can i trim them.. thanks --