There has got to be a better way to do the following than this:

use strict;
use warnings;

sub Last_N_Lines
{
   my($String, $N) = @_;

   my @Lines = split(/\n/,  $String);
   if(scalar(@Lines) > $N)
      {
      splice(@Lines, 0, scalar(@Lines) - $N);
      }

   return(join("\n",  @Lines))
}

my $String = "This is line 1
This is Line 2
This is Line 3
This is Line 4
This is Line 5
This is Line 6
This is Line 7
This is Line 8
This is Line 9
This is Line 10";

print("Last\[5\] Lines.\[\n" . Last_N_Lines($tring, 5) . "\]\n");
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This works fine and produces this output:

Last[5] Lines.[
This is Line 6
This is Line 7
This is Line 8
This is Line 9
This is Line 10]
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I struggled with various regex ways of getting the same result, but it was beyond me. Google and Super Searches were not helpful either.

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