in reply to Reverse Regexing

sauoq's solution is good if you know it will be at the end of the string. If you just want it to search from right to left, s/^(.*)ed/$1/i will work.

--MrNobo1024
s]]HrLfbfe|EbBibmv]e|s}w}ciZx^RYhL}e^print

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Re: Re: Reverse Regexing
by smalhotra (Scribe) on Aug 09, 2002 at 16:50 UTC
    Just thought I'd explain the previous regexes a little. The ^ represents the start of the string with $ represents the end of the string. The .* (greedy) part will match as many characters it can before 'ed'. On the other hand a .*? is non-greedy and will match as few as possible characters, in this case zero, before 'ed'. Also be sure to look at perldoc perlre. Hope this helps a little more.
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