Re: How to match last character of string, even if it happens to be a newline?

That's what you want? :)

$ perl -e' m/.*(.|\n)/,print "<$1>" for "123","ab\
c\n"'
<3><
>$
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Please note that \n is often not one but two characters, like on Unix CR LF

Cheers Rolf
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