How to remove # from Twitter hashtags?

Question

I want to strip off the # from twitter hash-tags, so:

Input: I love #winter and #ice-skating
Output: I love winter and ice-skating

I thought th

Answer 1

1. You need to have a sub-pattern to match the string without the pound sign
2. Don't wrap 1 in the replacement string with curly braces

$tweet = preg_replace('/#([^\s]*)/', '$1', $tweet);