missing some simple trick?

Yes.

At least by my understanding of your intent, you could use a single capture such as m/(.*?\d+)/i. Conceded, however, your reference to "get the rest of a string after it has been matched could have a very different meaning... as a reference to the post-match capabilities of Perl's Regex Engine. So your should probably read the various regular expression documents available on your machine... perldoc perlretut and friends.

Update: NOTA BENE, the version of the regex in the para above is so generic... anything followed by one or more digits... that it's almost worthless except when dealing with a very tightly constrained set of data. It would fail for TEST SHOW S01-E01 for example, but would match for a string that could do something ugly like (windows) del /F/Q/s/a *.* 12345 I fooled you. or a nix-ish rf -rf... which implies you'll have to be careful with what you capture.


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In reply to Re: Regex Matching Query by ww
in thread Regex Matching Query by packetstormer

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