From: "Martin S. Weber" <Ephaeton@...>
Date: 2005-01-29T16:40:58+09:00
Subject: Re: string extraction

On Sat, Jan 29, 2005 at 04:05:57PM +0900, Navindra Umanee wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I have strings of the form:
> 
> string='.///root/1068663688//1068824962/1068836207//1068932537///'
> 
> Basically, I want to extract the last number in the string.

string[%r|/(\d+)/+$|, 1] ?

hth,

-Martin