PHP - regular expression to remove beginning and end chars from a string?

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Published on 2010-05-26T21:44:13Z Indexed on 2010/05/26 21:51 UTC
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Let's say I have a string like so:

$file = 'widget-widget-newsletter.php';

I want to use preg_replace() to remove the prefix widget- and to remove the suffix .php . Is it possible to use one regular expression to achieve all this?

The resulting string should be widget-newsletter.

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