Question

I have:

$string='#229: Tomato Soup Menu';
preg_match_all('/: (.+?)*/', $string , $arr);

I’m trying to make the return just “Tomato Soup Menu”. That is everything after the colon space, until the end of the string.

Any ideas?

Answer 1

Try this (it assumes that the format is always consistent at the start – a pound symbol, then numbers, then a colon, then a space, then the text you want):

$string='#229: Tomato Soup Menu';
$text = preg_replace('/^#[0-9]+: (.+)/', '$1', $string);

If it’s just everything after the colon-space, and the start isn’t consistent, try this:

$string='#229: Tomato Soup Menu';
$text = preg_replace('/^(.*?): (.+)/', '$2', $string);