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<?php $before = html_entity_decode("&nbsp;") . "&nbsp;abc&nbsp;xyz&nbsp;"; $pattern = '~^(\xC2\xA0|&nbsp;)*(.*?)(?1)*$~'; $after = preg_replace($pattern, '$2', $before); var_dump($before, $after);
Output for 8.1.0 - 8.1.33, 8.2.0 - 8.2.29, 8.3.0 - 8.3.28, 8.4.1 - 8.4.14, 8.5.0
string(26) " &nbsp;abc&nbsp;xyz&nbsp;" string(12) "abc&nbsp;xyz"
Output for 8.4.15
/bin/php-8.4.15: /usr/lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /bin/php-8.4.15) /bin/php-8.4.15: /usr/lib/libm.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.35' not found (required by /bin/php-8.4.15) /bin/php-8.4.15: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.34' not found (required by /bin/php-8.4.15) /bin/php-8.4.15: /usr/lib/libc.so.6: version `GLIBC_2.38' not found (required by /bin/php-8.4.15)
Process exited with code 1.

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