Re: Printing Last Element of a line using perl memory?

[7stud]

When you are having trouble with regex matching, and you are certain your regex is correct, then it's time to check exactly what's in the string you're matching. One trick is to do this:

say "-->$string<--";

Any trailing whitespace will be apparent:

-->hello world              <---

And if there is a newline at the end of the string, you'll see something like this:

-->hello world
<--

Or if you want to reveal every character's ascii code, you can do this:

printf "%vd \n", $string;

--output:--
92.120.50.49.104.101.108.108.111

Edit: the printf applies ord() to the characters, so the printf is not limited to ascii characters.

[BrowserUk]

Or if you want to reveal every character in your string's ascii code, you can do this: printf "%vd \n", $string;

Thanks for that. I had no idea it existed.

And (IMO) even better is that is led me to just try: printf "%vx\n", $s;. And whaddayaknow. It worked!

I'll be making much use of that in future.

[7stud]

You can even get a little fancier if you want:

my $string = "\x15hello";

printf "%#*vx \n", " ", $string;


--output:--
0x15 0x68 0x65 0x6c 0x6c 0x6f

And the printf() actually reveals every character's ord(), so it's not confined to ascii characters.