I have a line: i.like.donuts.but.only.with.tea
now I want to remove everything that follows the last "." including the last ".".
in this case ".tea"
substr( $line, rindex( $line, '.' ) ) = '' if $line =~ tr/.//;
John -- use Perl; program fulfillment
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