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Hey thanks! my ($last) = (split(/--/, $line))-1; Works The -1 is what is significant in getting the last one i guess. -Turtle
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Re^3: Simple way to split on last match?
by Marshall (Canon) on Aug 08, 2012 at 04:39 UTC
    Yes that is correct.
    A Perl "list slice" can have indices of [-3,2,-1,3,-4] in any order. The one thing that I wish Perl could do that it cannot do: is to say "I want all of the stuff past index X" in a simple syntax.