Anonymous Monk,
Please forgive the poor error checking as this is intended only as an idea of how to accomplish this. It seems that you would want to make this a general (any string, any character to split on, any number of items) re-usable solution, so I offer the following: 
#!/usr/bin/perl -w
use strict;
my $string = "foo.bar.foobar";
my @array = rev_split($string, '.', 2);

print "$_\n" foreach (@array);

sub rev_split {
   return 0 unless (@_ > 1);
   my ($string , $split , $quantity) = @_;
   $string = reverse($string);
   $split =~ /^(.)/;
   $split = quotemeta $split;
   my @things = $quantity ? split /$split/ , $string , $quantity : spl
+it /$split/ , $string;
   $_ = reverse($_) foreach(@things);   
   return @things;
}

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Cheers - L~R

Update: I misread and assumed the split should be done first, not the reverse and I have modified code to work as desired.

Update 2: I realized this isn't as a general solution as I thought since it will only work if the split criteria is a single character. I would be interested in someone coming up with an all purpose reverse split.

In reply to Re: backward split by Limbic~Region
in thread backward split by Anonymous Monk

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