From: David Alan Black <dblack@...>
Date: 2002-08-05T11:46:28+09:00
Subject: Re: Regex question

Hi --

On Mon, 5 Aug 2002, Jim Freeze wrote:

> On Mon, Aug 05, 2002 at 11:37:12AM +0900, David Alan Black wrote:
> >
> > Try this:
> >
> >   /\.[^.]*$/
> >
> > which forces the match to start at the right-most '.' on the line.
> >
>  or this:
>
>   /\w+$/

(You forgot the \. :-)  \w will cover the example given, though I was
generalizing a bit: matching the post-last-dot part of any line.


David

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