in reply to Search a match to a regex from the END of a string

Doctrin,

And there is 'rindex' which is very fast and easy to use. 

   perl -e '$d="/usr/local/bin/perl"; $i=rindex($d,"\/"); print substr
+($d,$i+1),"\n";'

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which prints 'perl'. The Camel book has examples of how to do recursive searches.

Good Luck...Ed

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