From: Martin DeMello <martindemello@...>
Date: 2002-12-01T16:41:56+09:00
Subject: Re: Regular expressions from the end of a string

the Bare <grrr@wild.net> wrote:
> Hi:
> 
> Is there anyway to have a regular expression match from the end of a 
> string?  I would like to match something like the following:

See [ruby-talk:16567], and also google for 'sexeger'. THe efficient
thing to do seems to be to reverse the regexp, reverse the string, and
match one against the other.

martin