php - Trim a full string instead of using trim() with characters -

While using a specific delimiter in the data string, I often want to trim it to the final example before exploding.

I have always thought of this:

PHP trim () will skip the white space or some characters but if I want to trim the whole string:

  $ data = 'cookieDELIMITERchocolateDELIMITER'; $ Data = trim ($ data, 'DELIMITER'); The above will not actually work, because this will not trim the string "DELIMITER", rather instead "D, E, L, I, M, T, R".  
 What I need is:  
  $ data = 'cookieDELIMITERchocolate';  
 
 I appreciate your suggestions! 
 

  $ data = 'cookie DELIMITER chocolate DELIMITER'; $ Data = preg_replace ('/ ^ (DELIMITER) * | (DELIMITER) * $ /', '', $ data); Var_dump ($ data); // string (24) "cookie DELIMITER chocolate"  

The regular expression 0 + ( * ) matches the beginning of "DELIMITER" ( ^ ) or string ( | ) of the string ( $ ) will take these matches and replace them with empty strings.

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Full Regx explanation

  ^ matches the beginning of #DELIMITERDELIMITER) # match "DELIMITER" 0 times, Thanks * | # Or (DELIMITER) * matches the end of the "bar" string,   

, this means that in the beginning several DELIMITER end of the string Since Preg_replace () replaces a global match /, it will receive all events DELIMITER as long as they are connected to the beginning or end of the string.

dot ( ^ (DELIMITER). * | (DELIMITER) * $ ) will match the beginning of the string, after that DELIMITER, after any character of 0 + (< Code>. All matches) will be effective if this DELIMITER