Posted by Schroeder, AJ on 11/05/07 19:11

Hello group,

I am attempting to remove double quotes from the beginning and ending of a
string. Admittedly, I am not the best with regular expressions, but I do
have two that work with preg_replace(). Here they are:

$pattern = '[^"]'; <--- removes the beginning double quote
$pattern = '["$]'; <--- removes the ending double quote

But when I try to make this all one statement with:

$pattern = '[^"].*["$]';

PHP throws a warning with an unknown modifier '.'. I then tried to enclose
'.*' in parentheses and I get an unknown modifier '('.

This is getting beyond my regex knowledge, if anyone has any advice on this
it would be greatly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

AJ Schroeder

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