In this tutorial we will see How To Remove Dashes From String in PHP. PHP str_replace() function and preg_replace() function can be used to remove Dashes from a string.
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PHP str_replace() function
PHP str_replace() function replaces given characters or a string with other string or characters.
In this example str_replace() function is used to remove the Dashes from string.
<?php
$string = "How-To-Code-School-.com";
$newString = str_replace('-', '', $string);
echo $newString;
?>
In above code of PHP, dashes are removed from everywhere in the string.
PHP preg_replace() function
PHP preg_replace() Function is used to perform a regular expression search, it is also used to replace one pattern of string with another string.
In this example preg_replace() function is also used to remove the Dashes from the string.
<?php
$string = "How-To-Code-School-.com";
$newString = preg_replace('/-/i', '', $string);
echo $newString;
?>
In above code of PHP, dashes are removed from string with help of preg_replace().
"/-/i" is pattern input that we have used in preg_replace() to look for dashes in our string.
while the second parameter '' is our replacement parameter, which is basically nothing or null.
Third parameter is our main string, so this code will remove dashes from main string.
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