If that's all it is, you can try this instead of a regular expression: 

#!/usr/bin/perl
use v5.10;
my $string = "stash_ST1.2.3.4_1.ROLLBACK.check.20170228-101051.435944.
+txt";
# Find "ROLLBACK" from the end of string, in case there's more than on
+e of
# them.
my $i = rindex($string, 'ROLLBACK.');
if ($i >= 0) {
    $i += length('ROLLBACK.'); 
    # Now $i points to the character after the full stop.
    # Find the position of the next full stop after it.
    my $j = index($string, '.', $i);
    if ($j >= 0) {
        my $word = substr($string, $i, $j - $i);
        say $word;
    } else {
        # No full stop after ROLLBACK -- signal an error?
    }
} else {
    # ROLLBACK not found! Signal an error?
}

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However, scorpio17's regular expression is better, because you can see the input string's expected structure more clearly and the regex solution is also shorter!

In reply to Re^3: Parse string and extract word after specific pattern by vrk
in thread Parse string and extract word after specific pattern by rinkish85

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