php: how to regex replace the following strings?

Question

would like to replace all occurence of, double quote included

"http://somebunchofchar"

to

"link"

I came up with preg_replace("/\"http:\/\/.\"/i", "\"link\"", $string);

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1188129/replace-urls-in-text-with-html-links — Rusty Fausak, Jan 27 '12 at 08:09

shift66 · Accepted Answer · 2012-01-27T08:16:25.923

2

Just add an asterisk and question mark after dot

preg_replace("/\"http:\/\/.*?\"/i", "\"link\"", $string);

edited Jan 27 '12 at 08:16

answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:10

shift66

score 2 · Answer 2 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:13

2

$string = preg_replace('#"http://.+"#', '"link"', $string);

answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:13

IvanGL

score 1 · Answer 3 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:14

1

You can use:

preg_replace('~"http://[^"]*"~i', '"link"', $string);

answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:14

anubhava

score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Jan 27 '12 at 08:11

Just look here: http://regexlib.com/DisplayPatterns.aspx?cattabindex=1&categoryId=2&AspxAutoDetectCookieSupport=1 how to match an URL with the correct pattern; than use preg_replace with the particular regexp pattern ;-) (you can add those quotes at the start and end to the pattern yourself quite easily) :-)

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