Regular expression help wanted

How to get at bit not matched

[neiljones]

I am still quite new to PHP and I simply cannot find out how to do this.

I have a situation where I have the following file name to manipulate in code.

variablebitnnn.extension

where nnn could be a number from 1 into the thousands and where variablebit could be alphas and numerics even with a numeric on the end.

I need to get at the nnn.extension bit.

Now in perl this would be easy you would to a regexp to match the variablebit and the rest would be in $'

Now how do I achieve this in PHP?

[coopster]

I'm assuming you are going to use a function like preg_match [php.net]? If you have a regex to match the variablebit, just add a second parenthesized subpattern to match the non-variablebit. Then use the

array matches

parameter to pull out the part you want. Make sense?

[DrDoc]

$filename = "variablebitnnnn.ext";
$var = "variablebit";
$num_plus_ext = preg_replace("/^$var/","",$filename);

[neiljones]

Thanks! That works perfectly.

[coopster]

Neat way to do it DrDoc.