On Jul 23, John W. Krahn said: >Rich Busse wrote: >> >> I want to replace the last "#" with a newline. I've come up with a few ideas > >$_ = reverse; >s/#/\n/; >$_ = reverse;
Here's a (potential) Perl 5.8.1 way of doing it, which is likely to be faster than the sexeger (reversing approach above) method: s/.*\K#//; That's like saying s/(.*)#/$1/; but it saves you from capturing and copying. I invented it yesterday. ;) -- Jeff "japhy" Pinyan [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.pobox.com/~japhy/ RPI Acacia brother #734 http://www.perlmonks.org/ http://www.cpan.org/ ** Look for "Regular Expressions in Perl" published by Manning, in 2002 ** <stu> what does y/// stand for? <tenderpuss> why, yansliterate of course. [ I'm looking for programming work. If you like my work, let me know. ] -- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
