strip_bbcode

[squishi]

I have written a small plugin in the showthread_complete hook.

It works, except for the filtering of BBCODE.

PHP Code:

strip_bbcode($vv); 


I run this in the plugin, but the variable still contains BBCODE.

--------------- Added [DATE]1256912691[/DATE] at [TIME]1256912691[/TIME] ---------------

I found the solution on another site.
This works:

PHP Code:

 $pattern = '|[[\/\!]*?[^\[\]]*?]|si';
 $replace = '';
 $vv =  preg_replace($pattern, $replace, $vv); 


It turns out that this is the wrong function for me, though.
I need to remove the whole bbcode including the content between the brackets.
How do I do that?