Hi Monks, i'm having a problem coming up with a nice regex for a quick script i'm writing

Essentially i'm parsing a file for certain pieces of information, and contained in the file is a unix path which triggers my regex

probably best explained with simplified code:

my $line=do {
  local $/=undef;
  <DATA>;
};
my @substrings=$line=~/(\w+\.\w+)/g;
print "$_\n" foreach(@substrings);
__DATA__
      Path to file: /users/me/foo.baz/filename.ext
my_content(word.other)

[download]

Which obviously gives me:

foo.baz
filename.ext
word.other

[download]

The problem i have is that i'd like to only pick up "word.other"

I've tried: /(?<!\/)(\w+\.\w+) but that just (rightly) gives me "ord.other" and "oo.baz" etc

Obviously i could strip out the paths first etc but it seems like there should be a nice way to do it in a regex, i just can't think of one. Any thoughts? Thanks!

In reply to Regex for ignoring paths by Amblikai

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