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From: Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
To: John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>
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Subject: Re: Crafting Perl RE...
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On Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:12:54PM +0700, John Indra wrote:
> >[~] edwin@kludge>perl -e '$s="blaat.test.jpg";$s=~/\.(\w+)$/; print $1,"\n"'
> >jpg
> 
> So the RE is /\.(\w)$/
> Hmm... I am not using this from the first place to anticipate "extensions
> that has weird characters", say:
> 
> $string = "test.w?g"

[~] edwin@kludge>perl -e '$s="blaat.test.j?g";$s=~/^.*\.(.*)$/; print $1,"\n"'
j?g

You're lucky that ^.* is greedy :-)

Edwin

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