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Php regex expression replace

I have a line like this as a json response for a script:

"Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, HTTP://unknown/string/in/unknown/place/ , sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua"

Is there a way to replace empty string using regex and php preg_replace?

I'm not familiar with regex, could you just give an example? I basically need to remove the substring starting with "http" and ending with a space if possible.

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Something like

preg_replace("/HTTP\S+\s,/", "","Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, HTTP://unknown/string/in/unknown/place/ , sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua" );

Will give the result as

Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, sed do eiusmod tempor incididunt ut labore et dolore magna aliqua

Regex /HTTP\S+\s,/

  • \S

    matches anything other than a space

  • \S

    matches a blank

Demo Regex



EDIT

Better solution like

/HTTP\S+(\s,|$)/

So the link can appear anywhere in the line, even at the end.

Example

preg_replace("/HTTP\S+(\s,|$)/", "","Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit, HTTP://unknown/string/in/unknown/place/" );
=> Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit,

Demo Regex

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