Sounds like homework, but here's a tip. 
my $i = index reverse($phrase),$what;

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updated: () meh. that's not good ofcourse. I think this works ok: 
use strict;
print join(",",rindexes("hello world , kill bill","ll"));

sub rindexes {
    my $s = reverse shift;
    my $what = reverse shift;
    my @indexes;
    my $old = 0;
    while ((my $i = index $s,$what,$old) > -1) {
        push @indexes, length($s) - $i - length($what) +1;
        $old = $i+1;
    }
    @indexes;
}

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"What should it profit a man, if he should win a flame war, yet lose his cool?"

In reply to Re: character location question by Joost
in thread character location question by EchoAngel

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