How to remove asterisk from this spin syntax code? - regex

Question

here is my code it is a text spinner (synonym)
public function fetchContent($keyword)
{
$customContent = $this->getOption('custom_content_text');
$this->_setHttpStatusCode(200);
if (!$customContent)
{
$this->_setContentStatus(self::CONTENT_STATUS_NO_RESULTS);
return false;
}
if (preg_match_all('/({\*)(.*?)(\*})/', $customContent, $result))
{
if (is_array($result[0]))
{
foreach ($result[0] as $index => $group_string)
{
//replace the first or next pattern match with a replaceable token
$customContent = preg_replace('/(\{\*)(.*?)(\*\})/', '{#'.$index.'#}', $customContent, 1);
$words = explode('|', $result[2][$index]);
//clean and trim all words
$finalPhrase = array();
foreach ($words as $word)
{
if (preg_match('/\S/', $word))
{
$word = preg_replace('/{%keyword%}/i', $keyword, $word);
$finalPhrase[] = trim($word);
}
}
$finalPhrase = $finalPhrase[rand(0, count($finalPhrase) - 1)];
//now inject it back to where the token was
$customContent = str_ireplace('{#' . $index . '#}', $finalPhrase, $customContent);
}
$this->_setContentStatus(self::CONTENT_STATUS_PASSED);
}
}
return $customContent;
}
}
there is regex that request bracket like this
{*spin1|spin2|spin3*}
here is the regex from the snippet above
if (preg_match_all('/({\*)(.*?)(\*})/', $customContent, $result))
$customContent = preg_replace('/(\{\*)(.*?)(\*\})/', '{#'.$index.'#}', $customContent, 1);
i would like to remove the * to format allow just {spin1|spin2|spin3} wich is more compatible with most spinner ,
i tried with some regex that i find online
i tried to remove the * from both regex without result
thanks you very much for your help

Answer 1

Remove \* instead of just * – Lucas Trzesniewski