php preg_replace url

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By Chris Sheridan MADRID, Spain -- Rudy Fernandez is not returning calls from Portland Trail Blazers coach Nate McMillan and was fined $25000 by the NBA on ... var make_url = 'http://goog.com/Escape_Space_Link';

My question is how do I use regex and php's preg_replace to remove the entire var make_url = 'http://goog.com/Escape_Space_Link'

Please note that http://goog.com/Escape_Space_Link may change, but it's always a url

Thank you!

Will the link always be the same? and will it always be at the end of the string? — Russell Dias
– Russell Dias, Commented Aug 20, 2010 at 7:41
The link will keep changing, and it's not always at the end of the string. Thanks! — Patrick
– Patrick, Commented Aug 21, 2010 at 7:57
How do you get that string in the first place? It looks like someone run strip_tags() on some HTML. In such case, it'd be better to run an HTML parser. — Álvaro González
– Álvaro González, Commented Aug 24, 2010 at 12:00

Leon · Accepted Answer · 2010-08-21 12:48:14Z

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If it's always the same string you want to remove, use str_replace instead.

$string = str_replace("var make_url = 'http://goog.com/Escape_Space_Link'", "", $inputString);

If it's always "var make_url = 'http://someurl';", you can use this preg_replace to remove the url:

$string = preg_replace("/var make_url = 'http:\/\/.+';/", "", $inputString);

edited Aug 21, 2010 at 12:48

answered Aug 20, 2010 at 7:53

Leon

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Peter Ajtai Over a year ago

From the OP - Please note that http://goog.com/Escape_Space_Link may change, but it's always a url

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