I'm a total newbie to Perl. below is my question:
I need to retrieve the last word in the following line:
       sample/fresh/fresh/0/pineapple

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I tried the following snippet from perl.org and I don't have a clue why it just sits there: 
    my $element = sample/fresh/fresh/0/pineapple;
    my $word = $element;
    while (<>) {
       foreach $word (m/(\w+)/g) {
       # parse the line and retrieve the last element.
          $element = $word;
             #I'd like to display the $element in a message box here t
+o see the result here.

        }
        }

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I'd like to learn to fish, but right now I'm hongree.

Thanks a million!

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