php - Remove <br>'s from the end of a string

Question

As the title says I have a string like this:

$string = "Hello World<br>hello world<br><br>";

I would like to get rid of the <br>s at the end of the string so it looks as follows:

$string = "Hello World<br>hello world";

I tried this:

preg_replace('/^(<br>)*/', "", $string);

but it didn't work. Maybe someone knows the right regex.

Answer 1

You're close, you used ^ at the start of the regexp, which means "match the start of the string." You want $ at the end, which means, "Match the end of the string."

preg_replace('/(<br>)+$/', '', $string);