Regex to remove [] and everything in them

Question

I am having some troubles getting some regex to work to remove some text, I need [text] removing from [text][maybehere]anytext .

So basically the first set of [] and whatever is in them. The rest of the text can contain anything including spaces and may have another set of [].

I have this: /\[.*\]/ but it is removing all of the brakets and contents.

I am using PHP

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Note the 4th parameter (replace limit) in preg_replace :

$str = preg_replace('/\[[^\]]*\]/', '', $str, 1);

Answer 2

I'd suggest

preg_replace('#\[.*?\]#', '', $stringVar, 1);

It will remove the first matching [] including it's content completely.

Answer 3

How about:

"/^\[[^\]]*\](.*)$/"