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Hi packetstormer,
".. I can't figure out how to get the rest of a string after it has been matched!.."
To start with, I will suggest you give good attention to the wisdom given by ww and davido

You can also re-write your script like so to have what you want I suppose:

use warnings;
use strict;

my $file = "TEST SHOW S01E01";

if ( $file =~ m/(.*?)(\d.+?)$/ ) {  # modified line

    my $show = $1;
    print "Show name: ", $show, $/,
          "others: ", $2, $/;

}
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Using your "$2", you can capture the rest of the string for usage.
Hope this helps.

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In reply to Re: Regex Matching Query by 2teez
in thread Regex Matching Query by packetstormer

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