Replace link with empty string based on a wildcard-CodePudding

So I have the following method that I'm calling $text = $this->get('text') that returns the following items:

Uploading a photo to test the Twitter API endpoint. pic.twitter.com/i4bV2UWkBM

Is there a way that I can take that return and find all pic.twitter.com instances and replace it with an empty string or remove the URL?

I tried to use:

$text = str_replace(
    'pic.twitter.com',
    '',
    $text
);

But it's not working, I guess the wildcard isn't properly detecting the pic.twitter.com.

CodePudding user response：

You can create a regex pattern and use preg_replace() to remove the whole URL from the string:

<?php

$replaced = preg_replace(
    '/pic\.twitter\.com\/[a-zA-z0-9]{10}/',
    '',
    <<<TESTS
    Uploading a photo to test the Twitter API endpoint. 
    pic.twitter.com/i4bV2UWkBM … 
    pic.twitter.com/i1bx2U55BM …
    pic.twitter.com/i22x2U55BM …
    TESTS
);

echo $replaced;

That code will print the following:

Uploading a photo to test the Twitter API endpoint. 
 … 
 …
 …