Comment Comment by perlgeek Basically the same advice, from the year 2000: http://www.perlmonks.org/?node_id=24640There is one legitimate use case of .* though: advancing to the last match of something. If you want to find the last digit in a string, /.*(\d)/ will readily find it for you. parent perlgeek 12 years ago
There is one legitimate use case of .* though: advancing to the last match of something. If you want to find the last digit in a string, /.*(\d)/ will readily find it for you.