On Mon, 23 Nov 2009 23:14:51 +1000, Shawn H Corey <shawnhco...@gmail.com>
wrote:
shadow52 wrote:
[snip]
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.
[snip]
my $n = "0000000000000111";
my ( $last_3_digits ) = $n =~ m{ (\d\d\d) \z }msx;
print "$last_3_digits\n";
Hi Shawn et al.,
I am also intrigued by the \z anchor. I had a look at perldoc perlreref
and found
\z Match absolute string end
My question is what is the difference between \z and $? And when should I
use \z rather than $ ? From the same documentation:
$ Matches at the end of the string (or line, if /m is used)
Cheers,
Dave
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