Hi, The following should work:
my $number = '0000000000000111'; my ($index) = ( $number =~ /\d+(\d{3})/ ); $index would contain the last three digits: '111'. To learn about regular expressions in Perl, you can go through `perldoc perlre` and `perldoc perlretut`. The Perldoc website (http://perldoc.perl.org/) can be of help as well. Regards, Alan Haggai Alavi. -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: beginners-unsubscr...@perl.org For additional commands, e-mail: beginners-h...@perl.org http://learn.perl.org/