You're probably better off using good ole' substr instead. It's built for doing such things.

If you really want to use a regex for some perverse reason -- well, then you're stark raving mad. But in good company. Anyways, think on the following:

EnglishRegex translation
We want to match..$callerid =~ /
..and remember..(
..any character...
..7 times..{7}
..stop remembering..)
..then the end of line..$
..and that's the end of the match./;

Putting that all together, we would get $callerid =~ /(.{7})$/; which would leave the last seven digits in $1. I will reiterate that you don't want to do this, though. It's slow and ugly; use substr. The above was provided as a learning exercise.

Share and enjoy. :)

perl -pe '"I lo*`+$^X$\"$]!$/"=~m%(.*)%s;$_=$1;y^`+*^e v^#$&V"+@( NO CARRIER'

In reply to Re: PLEASE HELP!!! REGEXP by Chmrr
in thread Get last 7 characters with regexp (was: PLEASE HELP!!! REGEXP) by Anonymous Monk

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