On Nov 6, John W. Krahn said: >Paul Harwood wrote: >> >> if ( /VALUE={1}(\d+)/ ) { >> >> looks for the first occurrence of value. How do I find the last occurrence? > >Probably the most efficient way: > >my $rev = reverse $_; >if ( $rev =~ /(\d+)=EULAV/ ) {
Remember to reverse $1, though. You could also do /.*VALUE=(\d+)/ -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]