Remove numeric prefix from string - PHP regex

Question

Would somebody care to help me out with a regex to reliably recognize and remove any number, followed by a dot, in the beginning of a string? So that ``` 1. Introduction ``` becomes ``` Introduction ``` and ``` 1290394958595. Appendix A ``` becomes ``` Appendix A ```

Accepted Answer

Try:

```
preg_replace('/^[0-9]+\. +/', '', $string);
```

Which gives:

```
php > print_r(preg_replace('/^[0-9]+\. +/', '', '1231241. dfg'));
dfg
```

Remove numeric prefix from string - PHP regex

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