note Kenosis <p>Here's another option:</p> <c> my @test_filtered = map { (/(\d+)[\d.]*/g)[-1] // '' } @test; </c> <p><strong>Update</strong>: changed to <c>//</c> to handle 0s. Thanks again, [http://perlmonks.org/index.pl?node_id=634253|AnomalousMonk]. 1004756 1004756