1st plugin, need some regex advice to remove BBCode [URL='websirte']

[tenants]

Hi, I'm just creating my first mod

I'm very new to regex, and wondered if there any regex people here?

All I'm trying to do is convert:

 a string [URL='anychars']sometext

to

 a string sometext

What I've come up with so far is :

$str = preg_replace('/[\[URL=\':.\/\-\d\w?\'\]]/', "", $sigLinks[$i]);

But this also removes the last part of the string "sometext"

I acutally wanted to use something like:

preg_replace('/[\[URL=\'[.*]\'\]]/

but this didnt work either

 

[Cezz]

This should work...

preg_replace('/\[url\=.*\](.*)\[\/url\]/i',"$1", $sigLinks[$i]);

But I haven't tested it.

 

[tenants]

That really helped, thanks Cezz.

It was only the first part of the URL bb code that I needed to take out (since the [/URL] was already taken out with an explode)

So I used your suggestion:

preg_replace('/\[url\=.*\]/i', "$1",  $sigLinks[$i]);

Worked like a dream, cheers

 

[tenants]

FYI, used it in a plugin...
http://xenforo.com/community/threads/signatures-control-plugin-max-chars-max-links-max-lines.19277/
Slapped it all together quite quickly (Just over 3 hours to go through the tutorial, make my own version, export and add it here!).
Thanks for your help