Re: Re: Extract string from rear of string

[Anonymous Monk]

or

$ext = (split /\./, $fname)[-1];

But neither take note of the fact that the file might not have an extention...

[hacker]

..or more than one dot... like linux-2.4.17.tar.gz

[ichimunki]

Begging your pardon, but the split shown returns the last bit of stuff after the final dot, which I think complies with the rather vague request of getting the extension. In your example, the extension is 'gz' after all. That's the beauty of negative indices, they work from the other end.