Help in regex pls

Hi guys

Since I'm not that good with regex I'm doing this quite the lame way ... 

<?php
$string="[0:1]={1967,1968}";

$regex="#([[](.*)[]]=)#e";

$output=preg_replace($regex, '', $string);
print ( $output . "<br/>" ); 

$search=array('{', '}');
$output=str_replace($search, "", $output);

print ( $output ); 
?>

How can I do this in one pass using regex only?

Thx in advance!

$regex = "#(\[[^\]]*\]=)|{|}#e";
$output = preg_replace($regex, '', $string);

Thx Psycho!

and sorry to have posted in the wrong forum earlier... 

While fully in synch with Psycho about the method to match the content of the brackets, I'd like to offer a couple fine-tuning suggestions for the sake of "clean and compact":

- the "e" modifier has no place in this regex

- to match a single character out of a list, a character class is more efficient than alternations: [{}] rather than |{|}

- no need for the parentheses

$regex='#\[[^\]]*\]=|[{}]#';

Wishing you's a fun weekend.

Thx ragax!

Yea ... lots of fun.. C++/Qt4, PHP, SQL ... ... .... two open IDE's (eclipse/kdevelop) ... 

Have a gr8 weekend too!

Wow, that sounds full on! Good luck with your project.