shadow52 wrote:
> Hey everyone,
>
> I am trying to get just the last 3 numbers from the following number
> from perl using regexs but I have not had no success so I was hoping
> that I could get a little help on this. I just ordered the regex book
> from oreilly so that hopefully in the future I will not have to ask a
> question like this again.
>
> The number is 0000000000000111
>
> I was just wanting to get the last 3 digits from this number to be
> able to get an exact word phrase from my already loaded Hash table
> that I have created for various numbers that I will get the last 3
> numbers from. Oh yeah all I was doing was putting this number in a
> file and then passing it to perl on the command line incase that is
> needed.
>
> Any help is much appreciated or if you can just point me to a good
> place to get a better understanding of how to do this while I wait for
> my book to arrive.
>
> Thanks,
> shadow52
>
>
my $n = "0000000000000111";
my ( $last_3_digits ) = $n =~ m{ (\d\d\d) \z }msx;
print "$last_3_digits\n";
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Just my 0.00000002 million dollars worth,
Shawn
Programming is as much about organization and communication
as it is about coding.
I like Perl; it's the only language where you can bless your
thingy.
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