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in thread Extract last two digits from numbers

Just to be clear, tachyon's regex will match the last two digits of the first set of digits in a string that are at least 4 digits long

That's not clear at all because that's not what his regular expression does. What it does is match the second pair of the first sequence of 4 digits within a string. Here's tachyon's code again: my ($digits)= $str =~ m/\d\d(\d\d)/; and here is what your examples should have looked like:

duff

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Re: (4) Extract last two digits from numbers
by Limbic~Region (Chancellor) on Jan 06, 2004 at 16:10 UTC
    duff,
    That's what I get for trying to type what my brain is thinking after spending nearly 36 hours traveling half way around the world with only a few hours sleep. You are most correct. I was thinking about modifying my ^ and $ anchors to \b and somehow saw them in tachyon's code. They are obviously not there and I obviously need more sleep.

    Salamat po (courteous form of thank you in Tagalog)

    L~R

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