While I will confess that I noticed that merlyn has Death to Dot Star! listed (on his home node) as one of his favorite nodes, I'm actually the one who wrote that and I occassionally get friendly grief from fellow monks for using it. :)

(Though if merlyn rants against .*, I'd be interested in seeing the link)

Incidentally, I'd write the regex as follows (assuming that the data is very clean):

my $result = $1 if $string =~ /,\s([^,]+)/;
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Cheers,
Ovid

Update: japhy, it's an easy mistake to make. I just feel proud to have made the list :)

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