Title: Meaning of code
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# Meaning of code

 *  [chadev](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chadev/)
 * (@chadev)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meaning-of-code/)
 * Could anyone please tell me the meaning or implication of each line of code? 
   Thanks
    $excerpt = preg_replace(” (\[.*?\])”,”,$excerpt);
 * $excerpt = strip_shortcodes($excerpt);
 * $excerpt = strip_tags($excerpt);
 * $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, 250);
 * $excerpt = substr($excerpt, 0, strripos($excerpt, ” “));
 * $excerpt = trim(preg_replace( ‘/\s+/’, ‘ ‘, $excerpt));

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meaning-of-code/#post-4528552)
 * These are all native PHP functions, soi I suggest that you try looking them up
   at [http://www.php.net/manual/](http://www.php.net/manual/)

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