John Davidson

Message:

Hello I want to remove words from sentence below. how can i do this with regular expressions

ABC (+£768.00):Yes, 1 Top Access with 2 Socket (+£28.00):Yes , 2 USB and 2 RJ45 (Black)

I want to remove all the occurrence of words which start with "(+" and ends with "):".

For ex: i want to remove "(+£768.00):" and "(+£28.00):" from above line.

Please help me with this.

Thank You

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My Answer:
To remove all occurrences of words that start with a specific pattern using regular expressions in PHP, you can use the `preg_replace` function. Here's an example code snippet that removes all words starting with "ABC":

php
$sentence = "Hello I want to remove words from sentence below. how can i do this with regular expressions_ABC ( £768.00):Yes, 1 Top Access with 2 Socket ( £28.00):Yes , 2 USB and 2 RJ45 (Black)";

$pattern = '/\b\w*ABC\w*\b/';
$replacement = '';

$newSentence = preg_replace($pattern, $replacement, $sentence);

echo $newSentence;


In this code snippet, the regular expression pattern `/\b\w*ABC\w*\b/` is used to match any word that starts with "ABC". The `preg_replace` function is then used to replace all occurrences of such words with an empty string, effectively removing them from the sentence.