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<?php $a = 'hello,[how]. please don\'t remove[are]you?'; echo preg_replace('#\s*\[.+\]\s*#', ' ', $a); echo preg_replace('~\h*\[(?>[^][]++|(?R))*+]\h*~', ' ', $a);

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