PHP special regular expression pattern to match URLs after a specific string

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I'm trying to develop a word counting application that supports .pdf, .docx, .doc, .txt, ..etc documents and I was able to read .doc files with PHP and load the plain text to a variable.

I'm using following code to remove extra white spaces of the string.

$str = trim(preg_replace('/\s+/', ' ', $str));

My issue is: Word documents with hyperlinks are phrasing as Some dummy text here.. HYPERLINK "http://domain.com/directory/page" other dummy text is here..

So I want to remove that HYPERLINK "http://domain.com/directory/page" part or replace with a space or something.

Since I'm not a regular expression expert, I'm looking for help to solve this problem. Thanks!

Nicolas Defranoux · Accepted Answer · 2014-03-02 09:42:49Z

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HYPERLINK "http://domain.com/directory/page" will be matched by:

HYPERLINK "[^"]*"

Hyperlink, then quote, then anything but quote, then quote.

answered Mar 2, 2014 at 9:42

Nicolas Defranoux

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madhushankarox Over a year ago

Hi, Thanks for the answer It worked for me. I used / HYPERLINK "[^"]*" / because the part, I wanted to remove got two spaces before and after the string.

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