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# Jose Llanos

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 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [delete_user_meta problem matching substring](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jose Llanos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/latinunit/)
 * (@latinunit)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/#post-4216910)
 * I’ve solved it. thanks
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [delete_user_meta problem matching substring](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jose Llanos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/latinunit/)
 * (@latinunit)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/#post-4216892)
 * Can anyone help please, it is rather urgent
 *   Forum: [Plugins](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/plugins-and-hacks/)
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   reply to: [delete_user_meta problem matching substring](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/)
 *  Thread Starter [Jose Llanos](https://wordpress.org/support/users/latinunit/)
 * (@latinunit)
 * [12 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/delete_user_meta-problem-matching-substring/#post-4216792)
 * **Update**
 * A friend achieved to perform this operation by doing the following;
 *     ```
       $remove_value = 'lu_ban_settings_pointer';
           $meta_data = get_user_meta( $user_id->ID, 'dismissed_wp_pointers' );
           if (isset($meta_data['0'])) {
               //                           //at end (or mid)  //at beg (or mid)  //failsafe
               $new_val = str_replace(array(','.$remove_value, $remove_value.',', $remove_value), '', $meta_data['0'])
               update_user_meta( $user_id->ID, 'dismissed_wp_pointers', $new_val);
           }//end isset meta_data 0
       ```
   
 * However, I think that there should be an easier way of achieving this, why would
   WordPress make it so difficult to delete a comma separated value in a user’s 
   meta data.?

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