How to remove ⭕️ and ♛ emoji from the beginning of the string PHP?

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How to remove ⭕️ and ♛ emoji from the beginning of the string PHP? Please note that I only want to remove ⭕️ and ♛ emoji, NOT all the emoji.

For example:-

If the string is ⭕️ ABC 123 XYZ 789 then it should look ABC 123 XYZ 789 after removal of emoji ♛ from the beginning of the string.

I tried preg_replace("⭕️", "", $string) and str_replace("⭕️", "", $string) but does not work at all.

@WiktorStribiżew Removing a string is not the same as moving a set of characters so I don't think that duplicate really fits. — jeroen, Apr 11 '18 at 19:40
See `$str = preg_replace('/^' . preg_quote($prefix, '/') . '/', '', $str);` in the linked question. `$prefix` is the `(⭕️|♛)`. Probably, the `u` modifier will be required. — Wiktor Stribiżew, Apr 11 '18 at 19:43

score 3 · Accepted Answer · answered Apr 11 '18 at 19:21

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There is no need for regex here, just use ltrim():

$str = '⭕️ and ♛ emoji from t';
var_dump(ltrim($str, '⭕️♛'));

Result:

string(21) " and ♛ emoji from t"

An example.

answered Apr 11 '18 at 19:21

jeroen

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I do get the downvote for answering a low-quality question, but deleting a correct - and by far the simplest - answer that does not appear in the duplicate is just silly. – jeroen Apr 11 '18 at 19:42
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well that sure wasn't mine – Funk Forty Niner Apr 11 '18 at 20:09
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@FunkFortyNiner Never doubted that :-) – jeroen Apr 12 '18 at 08:10

score -1 · Answer 2 · answered Apr 11 '18 at 19:20

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Looks to already be answered here: PHP : writing a simple removeEmoji function

Because its just those two emojis, you only have to search on those two unicodes ( U+265B and U+2B55) just do a replace on those characters instead of a whole regex.

answered Apr 11 '18 at 19:20

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shouldn't you have flagged as a possible duplicate instead? You're plagiarizing on an existing Q&A. – Funk Forty Niner Apr 11 '18 at 19:26
@WiktorStribiżew so that gives them the right for plagia? come on; I think you should know about this. You've been here long enough. Edit: you deleted that comment I was responding to. – Funk Forty Niner Apr 11 '18 at 19:29
@FunkFortyNiner sorry to of offended, was not my intent. Kind of harsh though, as I just now noticed i have the ability to flag posts for duplicate now. I didn't have those rep points < hour ago... – Jeremy Apr 11 '18 at 19:55
No offense taken. But what do you mean by "harsh"? That isn't my downvote you received btw. – Funk Forty Niner Apr 11 '18 at 20:10

How to remove ⭕️ and ♛ emoji from the beginning of the string PHP?

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