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ericsemail Novice Mar 29, 2007, 9:55 AM Post #1 of 4 (1177 views) Help w/ matching at the end of a string. Can't Post Hi-- I've searched through this thread but my problem is kind of specific and I haven't found an example that reflects what I'm trying to do.. I have a string: "XXXXXX-x50xx" i'm trying to match the end, in this case the "xx" at the end but in general I'm trying to match the last non-numeric characters until the number. Sometimes the string may be "XXXX-x50xxXX" so in this case I'd want to match "xxXX". In other cases it may look like "XXXXXX_5X". Anyway, when I do the match, I believe it's finding it, except, it's not storing the match in $1 or $& and I can't figure out why. Maybe my regular expression is wrong? I've very new to this. Can someone please help me out? Thanks

ericsemail Novice Mar 29, 2007, 10:13 AM Post #2 of 4 (1176 views) Re: [ericsemail] Help w/ matching at the end of a string. [In reply to] Can't Post Blah--figured it out: /(\D*)$/; I was putting the '$' in the front like: /$(\D*)/; and it was matching, but...wasn't working... with the $ at the end, everything is great. :)

ericsemail Novice Mar 29, 2007, 10:20 AM Post #3 of 4 (1175 views) Re: [ericsemail] Help w/ matching at the end of a string. [In reply to] Can't Post Ok--ran into my next problem if anyone is alive out there--now I'm trying to get the '50' out. But--I can't search from the "end" because it's no longer located at the end. What to do?

KevinR Veteran Mar 29, 2007, 12:10 PM Post #4 of 4 (1170 views) Re: [ericsemail] Help w/ matching at the end of a string. [In reply to] Can't Post /(\d+)/ or: /.*?(\d+).*/ -------------------------------------------------

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