Re: parse a string

[talexb]

Something like

  my $String = " something, something, something, this ";
  my ( $LastWord ) = $String =~ m/(\w+)\s$/;

would probably work. The '$' anchors the pattern to the end of the string, and the brackets around the LastWord variable are to keep things in a list context.

--t. alex

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[Molt]

This works provided the last section consists of only alphanumerics, since \w won't match anything else. Try this on the string 'Some people don't' and it only matches the 't', using the \S solution is probably safer in the long term.

Nice use of the inline substitution though, really should get more used to using that idiom.