in reply to Re^2: How to match last character of string, even if it happens to be a newline?
in thread How to match last character of string, even if it happens to be a newline?

> Not quite: ... "abc\nd"

in this case two options with /s modifier

  DB<11> m/.*(.|\n)/s,print "<$1>" for "123","abc\n","abc\nd"
<3><
><d>
  DB<12> m/.*(.)/s,print "<$1>" for "123","abc\n","abc\nd"
<3><
><d>
  DB<13>

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