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Date:      Fri, 9 Feb 2001 11:32:57 +0100
From:      Edwin Groothuis <mavetju@chello.nl>
To:        John Indra <john@office.naver.co.id>
Cc:        freebsd-questions@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: Crafting Perl RE...
Message-ID:  <20010209113257.G62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl>
In-Reply-To: <20010209171254.A34759@office.naver.co.id>; from john@office.naver.co.id on Fri, Feb 09, 2001 at 05:12:54PM %2B0700
References:  <20010209160849.A97806@office.naver.co.id> <20010209104306.F62745@d9168.upc-d.chello.nl> <20010209171254.A34759@office.naver.co.id>

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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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