PHP's preg_replace() function is not replacing all lines in:
12*some input 12*some input 1*some input The code is:
preg_replace("/^(\d{1,2}[^0-9])/", "", $text); The result is:
some input 12*some input 1*some input But I want this:
some input some input some input 1 Answer
Depending on how the implementation of PHP does it, I think you're missing either an option or your regex doesn't do what you think it does.
/^(\d{1,2}[^0-9])/ The above regex would look for 1-2 numbers followed not by numbers from the start of the string. Depending on how it works a line break doesn't indicate that ^ should match again.
If you look at the PCRE Pattern Modifiers in the manual you likely need to supply the m flag to turn on multi line mode.
In addition, though it's missing from that manual page, you might need the global flag. So the above regex would become:
/^(\d{1,2}[^0-9])/gm You might also be able to test this regular expression on platforms like RegEx 101.
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