Re: Perl Regex to strip all but last character in a string

Thanks Tom,

I had put together a rather clunky if else statement to get the job done,
but your solution is much better.

Jan

Tom Grenier Wrote:

If the last char of the string is always a digit, how about:

$foo = substr($foo, length($foo) -1);

Jan Morell wrote:

> Hi List Members,
>
> I am trying to strip all but the last digit in a string.  I tried using:
> $foo =~ s!^..!!;
> which workd fine if there are 3 digits in the string.  (The case most of
the
> time), but there might only be 2 digits.
>
> Am I going about this backwards?
>
> Thanks for any help.
>
> Jan

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