regex to remove all text before a character

Question

Is there an easy way to remove all chars before a      For example  change 3 04 somename jpg to somename jpg   Any suggestions for where to learn to write regex would be great too  Most places I check are hard to learn from

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I learned all my Regex from this website: http://www.zytrax.com/tech/web/regex.htm. Google on 'Regex tutorials' and you'll find loads of helful articles.

String regex = "[a-zA-Z]*\.jpg";
System.out.println ("somthing.jpg".matches (regex));

returns true.

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The regular expression                  Then get the part between parenthesis  In perl   my var    3 04 somename jpg    var    m                my fileName    1    In Java   String var    3 04 somename jpg   String fileName       Pattern pattern   Pattern compile                  Matcher matcher   pattern matcher var   if  matcher matches          fileName   matcher group 1

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In Javascript I would use        meaning  match everything until    including   Example   console log   hello world  replace                 world

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Variant of Tim s one  good only on some implementations of Regex         var subjectString    3 04 somename jpg   var resultString   Regex Replace subjectString              Match start of string             Lazily match any character  trying to stop when the next condition becomes true             Match the underscore       RegexOptions IgnorePatternWhitespace

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will match all text up to the first underscore  Replace that with the empty string   For example  in C    resultString   Regex Replace subjectString               Match start of string             Match 0 or more characters except underscore             Match the underscore       RegexOptions IgnorePatternWhitespace     For learning regexes  take a look at http   www regular-expressions info

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no need to do a replacement  the regex will give you what u wanted directly       lt           jpg    tested with grep    echo  3 04 somename jpg  grep -oP     lt           jpg  somename jpg

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