On Mar 18, Richard Pfeiffer said:

>Good Afternoon,

I have bad news for you.  Your subject leads me to this statement:  "it
doesn't work that way."

>I have a string that has various white space
>(tabs, spaces, etc) at the end of it.  I want to
>find the last real char [0-9a-zA-Z] and then use
>chop or chomp to remove the whitespace.

You're better off using something like

  $string =~ s/\s+$//;

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