title: Regular Expression to match someting that starts with
body: <p>I am trying to get a Match from this string</p>
  
  <pre><code>"Dial [Toll Free 1800 102 8880 ext: 246] to connect to the restaurant.  &lt;a class='tooltip' title='Foodiebay has now introduced value added calling features through the website. You just need to dial this number and we ..."
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>Where I want to check if a variable starts with the string <strong>Dial</strong></p>
  
  <pre><code>$a = 'Dial [Toll Free 1800 102 8880 ext: 246] to connect to the restaurant.  &lt;a class='tooltip' title='Foodiebay has now introduced value added calling features through the website. You just need to dial this number and we';
  
  preg_match('/[^Dial]/', $a, $matches);
  </code></pre>