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authorNiels van Dijke <perlboy@cpan.org>2020-06-01 06:01:14 +0000
committerNiels van Dijke <perlboy@cpan.org>2020-06-01 06:01:14 +0000
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Task 1
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+#!/usr/bin/perl
+
+# Perl Weekly Challenge - 063
+#
+# Task 1 - Last Word
+#
+# Author: Niels 'PerlBoy' van Dijke
+
+use strict;
+use warnings;
+
+# Prototype
+sub last_word($$);
+
+printf "%s\n", last_word(' hello world', qr/[ea]l/); # 'hello'
+printf "%s\n", last_word("Don't match too much, Chet!", qr/ch.t/i); # 'Chet!'
+printf "%s\n", last_word("spaces in regexp won't match", qr/in re/) // '(undef)'; # undef
+printf "%s\n", last_word( join(' ', 1..1e6), qr/^(3.*?){3}/); # '399933'
+
+sub last_word ($$) {
+ my ($line, $re) = @_;
+
+ foreach my $word (reverse split(/\s+/, $line) {
+ return $word if ($word =~ /$re/);
+ }
+
+ return undef;
+}
+