Date: Fri, 9 Feb 2001 12:43:13 +0300 From: "Artem Koutchine" <matrix@ipform.ru> To: "John Indra" <john@office.naver.co.id>, <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Subject: Re: Crafting Perl RE... Message-ID: <001c01c0927c$be056b00$0c00a8c0@ipform.ru> References: <20010209160849.A97806@office.naver.co.id>
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try /(.*?)\.(\w+)$/ and use $2 ----- Original Message ----- From: "John Indra" <john@office.naver.co.id> To: <freebsd-questions@freebsd.org> Sent: Friday, February 09, 2001 12:08 PM Subject: Crafting Perl RE... > Hi... > > Simple question but I don't know the answer. Suppose I have this string: > somefile.ins.jpg. I want to craft a Perl RE so it captures the jpg part. I > try this RE: > > $string =~ m#\.(.*)$# > > Unfortunately $1 captures ins.jpg, not jpg as I want. > > What RE to get it right? > > Thanks... > > /john > > > > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org > with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message > To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-questions" in the body of the message
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