[Solved] Remove only 3 characters after a specific string

Question

You can use regex to selecting target part of string and run it in preg_replace().

$url = "http://aaa-aaaa.com/bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb-2/it/clients/";
echo preg_replace("@(.*)\w{2}/([^/]+/)$@", "$1$2", $url);

See result of code in demo

Accepted Answer

You can use regex to selecting target part of string and run it in preg_replace().

$url = "http://aaa-aaaa.com/bbbb-bbbbbbbbbb-2/it/clients/";
echo preg_replace("@(.*)\w{2}/([^/]+/)$@", "$1$2", $url);

See result of code in demo