Hiya Monks,

I need your help in the following o get the output as mentioned for name1 output should be output1 and for name2 output should be output2. Pls suggest me a regex for this. 

$name1 = 'Morrisville Jones-Ingham Executive and Sales Recruiting '; 
$name2 = 'Jones-Ingham Executive and Sales Recruiting - Morrisville, N
+C, United States of America';
$output1 = 'Morrisville Jones-Ingham Executive and Sales Recruiting'; 
$output2 = 'Jones-Ingham Executive and Sales Recruiting';

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"Morrisville" is the location. Basically, I dont want to delete anything if the location comes in front(as $name1), but if the location comes in middle($name2) I want to delete that location following with deleting whatever follows it. Can any monks pls suggest me a common regex for this in refer to 'Morrisville' as $location?

In reply to Regex Help! by Anonymous Monk

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