Re^2: Question on File position, pulling words

Almost correct, you need to anchor the regex at the end of the string.

my @last_two = $string =~ /(\S+)\s+(\S+)$/;
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Re^3: Question on File position, pulling words by Narveson (Chaplain) on Mar 04, 2008 at 07:11 UTC
Don't overlook my `.`. As you can learn in perlretut, the first quantifier `.` grabs as much of the string as possible while still having the regexp match. My submission said `/.* # Read as far as possible before \s # matching whitespace, (\S+) # capturing a word, \s+ # matching more whitespace, (\S+) # and finally capturing the last word. /x` [download]	[reply] [d/l] [select]
Re^4: Question on File position, pulling words by hipowls (Curate) on Mar 04, 2008 at 07:42 UTC
True and faster, at least on long strings (I had hoped to riposté by pointing out mine was faster but that is true only on short strings ;-)	[reply]