On Thu, 6 Dec 2001, Booher Timothy B 1stLt AFRL/MNAC wrote:

> For example I have 'ABCDEFGH' and I want to get the right three letters:
>
> Right('abcdefgh',3) = 'fgh'
>
> Left can be done with substring (x,0) I am sure, but what about right?

You can still use substr, just give it a starting point that is negative:

perl -e 'print substr('abcdefg', -3, 3), "\n"'
efg

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