On Tue, Nov 2, 2010 at 5:50 AM, Larsen, Henning Engelbrecht < h...@risoe.dtu.dk> wrote:
> I want to search a string for patterns but starting the search from the > _end_ instead of from the beginning, using a regular expression. > > Try something like this: $string = "...looong string possibly with many E's.......E.....no capital e' here...3456" $string =~ m/E[^E]*$/; The expression matches a capital E, followed by zero or more non-E characters, and the end of the line. -- Robert Wohlfarth