eregi_replace replacement

Question

I'm pretty naff with regexpressions :( and I have inherited a bunch of code from a previous developer who has put lots of eregi_replace which are now deprecated on PHP 5.3

The functions in the code are:

eregi_replace("[\]","",$text);

I know I have to replace this function with preg_replace but I'm not sure what to do to "[]" in order to make it perl compatible.

I've tried "/[]/" but that gets a compilation error in PHP error log.

Many thanks

`[]` is not required since `[]` means match any character within it only 1 time..it should be \ — Anirudha, Nov 27 '12 at 10:23

score 2 · Accepted Answer · answered Nov 27 '12 at 10:51

Don't use eregi_replace, this function has been DEPRECATED as of PHP 5.3.0.
Relying on this feature is highly discouraged.

str_replace() - Replace all occurrences of the search string with the replacement string
preg_replace() - Perform a regular expression search and replace

str_replace("\", "", $text);

eregi_replace replacement

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