Regular expressions

[Bootsman123]

I have this string:
aaa (bbb)

I want to store 'aaa' in a $var1 and store 'bbb' in a $var2, but I just can't succeed in letting preg_replace work.

[ermau]

Will that always be the format of the string?

If so, try this pattern:
'/(.+?)/s\((.+?)\)/is'