Mondo Monks,

I have a collection of strings of the general form:

abunchofalphanumericcharacters_somenumbers

That is, a bunch of whatever that may contain letters, numbers, undescors, dashes and what have you, then a final series of numbers. Two examples:

asdf_sadf-3i897sdyf33987
3w45t-wevt453_838475693

I want to capture the final string of numbers after the last non-numerical character, in these cases 33987 and 838475693. Note that the last non-numerical character may be a letter (a-z, either case) or an undescor or a dash, or any number of other non-whitespace characters. The strings contain no whitespace.

But how?

Thanks.

In reply to Regex: find all trailing numerical digits in a string by punch_card_don

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