preg_replace ^ at beginning of line?

[fellows]

I have a string that looks like "^123" and I want to use preg_replace to turn it into "123".

I have tried:

$test = "^123";
preg_replace("/^{/","",$test);}
and
preg_replace("/^{^/","",$test);}

Neither do anything. Any suggestions? Thanks!

[fellows]

Well, this is brute force.

if ($value[0] == '^')
{
$value[0] = ' ';
trim($value);
}

[mtmosier]

This works fine for me.

$result = preg_replace("/^{^/","",$test);}

[fellows]

Thanks mtmosier! I forgot that I had to assign the result of preg_replace to something and that it did not modify the string.