Hi,
I have a $string that is separated by , and space;
boy, pig, 123, 123:412adbd, d0g, lajdlf134><<_ lkadsf !234,
Now I want to capture the string(s) between last two commas. It consists of
anything upto 32 characters. that is, right after d0g,\s+ up to the last
character before the last comma at the end of the line.
if I do something like
(my $value) = $_ ~= /,\s+(.*),\s+$/;
$value would start matching from "pig" because when I used $ and it looked
back, the first thing it would match is ", pig.... upto the end of the line"
I wonder how you could match only the pattern which is nearest to the end of
the line having used $ anchor.
To get around this, I could split the lines push each comma delimited string
into an array and finally print the last element which is a lot of work to do.
Is there some sort of turning of greedy behavior of the $ anchor?
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