Hi Colin
You may prefer this:
$line =~ s/[\d\s()]+$//g;
which will remove all trailing whitespace, digits and parentheses from
string $line.
Rob
"Colin Johnstone" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote in message
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> Gidday All,
>
> Im reading course names in from a text file and want to remove the course
number from the end of each course name. Can someone help me with the regex
to do this.
>
> e.g Mathematics 2 unit (15240)
>
> to give me Mathematics 2 unit
>
> Thanking you in anticipation.
>
>
>
> Colin Johnstone
> Website Project Officer
> Corporate Website Unit
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> ph 9561 8643
>
>
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