note 49473 added to function.preg-replace

It took me a couple hours to figure this one out as I'm a newbie at regular expressions, and no one had posted about it. This will remove the parentheses and all any characters inside of them. i.e. phone number with parentheses or Yahoo's news feed. preg_replace(" (\(.*?\))", "", $string) ---- Manual Page -- http://www.php.net/manual/en/function.preg-replace.php Edit -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=edit+49473 Delete: added to the manual -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49473&report=yes&reason=added+to+the+manual Delete: bad code -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49473&report=yes&reason=bad+code Delete: spam -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49473&report=yes&reason=spam Delete: useless -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49473&report=yes&reason=useless Delete: other reasons -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=delete+49473&report=yes Reject -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php?action=reject+49473&report=yes Search -- http://master.php.net/manage/user-notes.php