How to Remove Text Between brackets with php

Question

How to remove text Between brackets. For exp.

$str = 'Aylmers(test, test2), Ancaster(Clandeboye, Bluevale)';

i want to get as
$str = 'Aylmers, Ancaster';

For nested brackets you can check out my answer https://stackoverflow.com/questions/51278345/how-to-remove-text-between-brackets-with-php/51278504#51278504 — Rajat Jain, Jul 11 '18 at 06:32

score 6 · Answer 1 · edited Jul 11 '18 at 07:00

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Try this:

$str = 'Aylmers(test, test2), Ancaster(Clandeboye, Bluevale)';
echo preg_replace("/\([^)]+\)/","",$str );

output:

Aylmers, Ancaster

Regex

edited Jul 11 '18 at 07:00

answered Jul 11 '18 at 06:15

Gufran Hasan

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unfortunately this does not remove nested brackets such as A (B (C) D) and leaves you with A D – rawathemant Jul 11 '18 at 06:18
For nested brackets we need to modify regix but I have created for current requirement. – Gufran Hasan Jul 11 '18 at 06:19
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FYI - Those are not brackets. They are *parentheses*. Brackets look like this: [ ] – But those new buttons though.. Jul 11 '18 at 06:20
@billynoah, thanks, Parenthesis "()", curly brackets "{}", square brackets "[]" – Gufran Hasan Jul 11 '18 at 06:21
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ok, well then maybe that's a difference in dialect - in America anyway it's typically: Parentheses (), Brackets [], Braces {} – But those new buttons though.. Jul 11 '18 at 06:22

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Jul 11 '18 at 06:21

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This should do it:

`<?php`
`$string = "Stay 01 (Remove 01), Stay 02 (Remove 02)";`
`echo preg_replace("/\([^)]+\)/","",$string); // 'ABC '`

answered Jul 11 '18 at 06:21

Igor Birjukov

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score 0 · Answer 3 · edited Jun 20 '20 at 09:12

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If also want to remove nested data in brackets. You can use:

$str = 'Aylmers(test, test2), Ancaster(Clandeboye, Bluevale)';
echo preg_replace("/\(([^()]*+|(?R))*\)/","", $str);

//output:
//Aylmers, Ancaster

Explanation:

/ - Opening delimiter

( - Match opening parenthesis

[^)]+ - Match character that is not a closing parenthesis

) - Match closing parenthesis

/ - Closing delimiter

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answered Jul 11 '18 at 06:21

Rajat Jain

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It's nice that you added some explanation, but if you're going to explain, then explain why/how it matches nested parenthesis, rather than just a single pair. Having such an explanation would make this actually better than the [effectively identical code in an answer on the dup-target](https://stackoverflow.com/a/31788152/3773011). – Makyen Jul 11 '18 at 07:13

How to Remove Text Between brackets with php

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This should do it: