Re: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array.

rindex( $MessageLines[ -1 ], ':' ) comes immediately to mind. If that's -1 there's no ':' in it (but then reading the rindex docs would tell one that).

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Re^2: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array. by NateTut (Deacon) on Apr 22, 2009 at 21:18 UTC
I originally tried rindex, but the last non whitespace character won't always be a colon unfortunately.	[reply] [d/l]
Re^3: A Better Way to Find the Position of the Last Non-Whitespace Character in the Last Element of an Array. by Fletch (Bishop) on Apr 22, 2009 at 21:24 UTC
Aaah, I missed that qualification (got stuck on the specific example). `$idx = $+[1] if $MessageLines[-1]=~/(\S)\s*$/` then. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie. The cake is a lie.	[reply] [d/l]