Question

i have for example this string:

hello; how; are; you; ?

and i need to delete everything after last occasion of semicolon. I know that it is easy but i haven’t a lot of time to learn regular expressions. Im using text editor PSPad which supports regular expressions functions and the text is in simple txt file.

Thank you

Answer 1

Not sure which language you want this in, but in PHP, this works:

PHP

$string = 'hello; how; are; you; ?';
$string = preg_replace('#[^;]*$#', '', $string);

Perl

my $string = 'hello; how; are; you; ?';
$string =~ s/[^;]*$//;