Need Regular Expression Help

I need to build a regular expression and am not good at it. I have the following string:

blah blah blah {...

where blah blah blah is dynamic.

I want to truncate all of the data before this first {. There will be {'s after this one and I only want to match the first case and truncate all before it in PHP.

Can someone please help me?

 

preg_replace( '/[a-zA-Z0-9 ]*}(.*)/', '$1', $string );

Something like that might work. Could 'blah blah blah' contain all characters of just alphanumeric?

 

Here's a PHP orientated regular expression tutorial. Here's another, which is covers a lot more ground.

You'll find everything you need. Good luck!

 

austin-G, this will contain any number of characters and letters. Also, what is the $1?