Should be simple but I have a list of documents that have been titled in the format 'A Guide to Criminal Records Clearance for Prospective Employees' etc. This isn't much good to an end user looking down a long list if they all begin with 'A guide to .... etc'

What I want is a regex that will take the 'A guide to part off the front and tack it on to the end of the title so it's in the form 'Criminal Records Clearance for Prospective Employees - A Guide to'. Tried using s/(A guide to )(.*)/($2) ($1)/ but this doesn't work

Any ideas?

update (broquaint): title change (was Another RegEx poser)

In reply to Regex to move prefix of strings to their end by stew

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