从数组内的字符串中删除引号

Question

I have a string that looks like this:

$string = '"excludeIF":["miniTrack","isTriangleHanger","tubeTrack","boxTrack"]';

I need to get rid of the " that are inside of the [] array so it looks like this:

$string = '"excludeIF":[miniTrack, tubeTrack, boxTrack]';

I was trying some regex but I kept getting rid of all of the quotes.

Answer 1

For this particular example:

$string = '"excludeIF":["miniTrack","isTriangleHanger","tubeTrack","boxTrack"]';
preg_match("/((?<=\[).*(?=\]))/", $string, $match);
$change = str_replace('"', "", $match[0]); 
$result = preg_replace("/$match[0]/", $change, $string);

What this does is it gets the content inside the square brackets, removes the quotes, then replaces the original content with the cleaned content.

This may run into errors if you have the exact same string outside of square brackets later on, but it should be an easy fix if you understand what I've written.

Hope it helps.

PS. It would also help if you showed us what regexes you were trying, as you were, perhaps, on the right path but just had some misunderstandings.