Re: grep regex exact match last n positions


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Re: grep regex exact match last n positions

by nvivek (Vicar)

on Apr 13, 2010 at 05:36 UTC ( [id://834405]=note: print w/replies, xml )

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If you want to match the string in the array end with same number of characters as the pattern.Then,you try this.

my $search = "foo";

my $len=length($search); #finding the length of the pattern

my @array = ("s1 bar", "foo", "s3 foo");

print grep {/.*\b(.{$len})/;$_=$& if $1 eq $search;} @array;

#checking whether the end characters of the string in the 
array is same as the pattern given
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Re^2: grep regex exact match last n positions by JavaFan (Canon) on Apr 13, 2010 at 07:02 UTC
That's an expensive way of doing `substr`! Not to mention that your regexp actually doesn't find the last 3 characters - it finds the first 3 characters following the last word boundary. `print grep {substr($_, -length($search)) eq $search} @array;` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]

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