PHP Regex find + alter + replace within each tag

Question

I am new to regex if this is indeed what I need.

The string might include :

[name* your-name ]

[email* your-main-email some_thing]

etc

Amateur logic :

To hopefully produce :

[your-name]

[your-main-email]

etc

Or am I off target with method?

Many thanks

Niyoko · Accepted Answer · 2016-10-20 10:53:41Z

1

Try this code

$str = '[name* your-name ] [email* your-main-email some_thing]';
$str = preg_replace("/\[[^\s]+\s+([^\]\s]+)\s+[^\]]*\]/", "[$1]", $str);
echo $str;

Regex explanation:

To do replace when last space is missing i.e. [name* your-name] then use following regex

/\[[^\s]+\s+([^\]\s]+)[^\]]*\]/

answered Oct 20, 2016 at 10:41

Niyoko

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2 Comments

Amazing. Could I possibly ask a secondary... What if the last space is missing and could only be a ']' so space/] to test against ?

Many thanks for this. Makes large forms in contactForm7 a breeze when having to format the email out... now I can just copy the form itself. Best