PERL Beginners - regex match last

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regex match last

onlineviewer

2006-06-24, 8:01 am

Hello All

I have a file which contains something like this:

text text text text text text text : text text text text : text text
text text : text text text

you can see there are 3 colons here. I want to match the last colon
up until the end of the line. So my match would contain the last
occurrence
of the colon up until the end:

:text text text

Any suggestions ?
Thanks,

usenet@DavidFilmer.com

2006-06-24, 8:01 am

onlineviewer wrote:
> you can see there are 3 colons here. I want to match the last colon
> up until the end of the line.

It's easier than you think, because regexp's are greedy by default (ie,
they match as much as they possibly can and still satisfy the rest of
the requirements). So something like this would work:

my ($end_of_line) = ($line =~ /.*(:.*)/);

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David Filmer (http://DavidFilmer.com)

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