Posted by John Nichel on 10/14/01 11:35

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@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com

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