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# 8  
Old 06-22-2009
Code:
echo 'ua07app201' | sed 's/.*[^0-9]//'

# 9  
Old 06-22-2009
Code:
expr ua07app201 : '.*[^0-9]\([0-9]*\)$'

Last edited by radoulov; 06-22-2009 at 10:30 AM..
# 10  
Old 06-22-2009
Code:
echo 'ua07app201' | nawk -F'[^0-9]' '{print $NF}'

# 11  
Old 06-22-2009
Another one with Perl Smilie

Code:
echo ua07app201|perl -nle'print/(\d+)$/'

# 12  
Old 06-22-2009
Try it , and be cool
Quote:
Originally Posted by vgersh99
have you tried it?
i tried it. u can check also
# 13  
Old 06-22-2009
Quote:
Originally Posted by pritish.sas
i tried it. u can check also
I tried it with this result:

Code:
awk: The field -1 must be in the range 0 to 199.

 The input line number is 1.
 The source line number is 1

.
# 14  
Old 06-22-2009
Code:
echo ua07app201 | sed "s/.*\(...$\)/\1/"

Last edited by Scott; 06-22-2009 at 12:10 PM..
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