note 91015 deleted from function.json-decode by danbrown

Note Submitter: soletan at toxa dot de ---- @Gravis: using substr( $str, 1, -1 ) is a bit easier to read. In addition your preg_replace() might fail on strings (as values in $str) containing colon as a literal a better parser would properly recognize, e.g. ({title:"Yellow Pages: Who do you want to call today?"}) Aside from that preg_replace() supports "\w" which might reduce your pattern.