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(The pipe character acts as a logical OR)
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(The pipe character acts as a logical OR)

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Thank you TerryAtOpus! &nbsp;I'm glad I forgot to mention that I had also tried using the | with no success. &nbsp;Obviously, I screwed something up when I tried it before. &nbsp;You are a champion.
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Thank you TerryAtOpus!  I'm glad I forgot to mention that I had also tried using the | with no success.  Obviously, I screwed something up when I tried it before.  You are a champion.

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Hi all,<br />
<br />
I want to match varying quantities of consecutive characters in a string. &nbsp;<br />
For example, in $string I want to replace with nothing (i.e. &quot;&quot;):<br />
any number of instances (consecutive or not) of !@# <br />
and replace instances of 2 or more consecutive - <br />
and replace instances of 3 or more consecutive +<br />
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Example:<br />
$string='d+++og! + ca#t@ - how about the m--ule';<br />
&nbsp;I'd like to do something like: <br />
echo preg_replace(&quot;/[!@#(\-{2,}<wbr />)(\+{3,})]<wbr />/&quot;,&quot;&quot;,$str<wbr />ing);<br />
to get &quot;dog + cat - how about the mule&quot;<br />
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Every variant of moving/removing the parentheses and brackets that I've tried replaces either all instances of - and + including where they only occur once, or replaces no instances at all.<br />
<br />
Thank you in advance.<br />
<br />
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Hi all,

I want to match varying quantities of consecutive characters in a string.  
For example, in $string I want to replace with nothing (i.e. ""):
any number of instances (consecutive or not) of !@# 
and replace instances of 2 or more consecutive - 
and replace instances of 3 or more consecutive +

Example:
$string='d+++og! + ca#t@ - how about the m--ule';
 I'd like to do something like: 
echo preg_replace("/[!@#(\-{2,})(\+{3,})]/","",$string);
to get "dog + cat - how about the mule"

Every variant of moving/removing the parentheses and brackets that I've tried replaces either all instances of - and + including where they only occur once, or replaces no instances at all.

Thank you in advance.




PHP Regex for mixed quantities of consecutive characters

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