John Nichel wrote:
Okay, maybe it's just the fact that I'm concentration on getting out of
here for the holidays more than I am on my work, but I'm pulling my hair
out. Say I have a string -
Now, is the time; for all good men! to come to the aide? of their
What I want to do is drop everything after (and including) the last
punctuation mark (? in this case). I've got my pattern to match any
punctuation mark, but I just can't get the last one (it always hits on
the first). I'd love to use the string functions, but it has to be a
regular expression (right now it's punctuation, but eventually it's
going to need to be just about anything; last new line, last white
space, last 'b', etc).
Arrrrrrggggggghhhhhhh...okay, solved. Days like this, the easy stuff is
nearly impossible.
/[\.,?!;:][\w\s]+$/e
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John C. Nichel IV
Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek)
Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo
716.856.9675
jnichel@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
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