remove last .br with regular expression

[Jennifer Schlender]

Hi everyone,

First, I wanted to thank the people that answered me a few weeks ago when I was having issues with my Xlate and concatentate/iterate for lab results. I got really busy and never replied back–my solution was pretty long and drawn out–but I got it fixed.  😀  So thank you for those that take the time to answer on this forum.

I’m still working on lab results, and now I want a regular expression that will find the last .br in a line and simply remove it. I’m sure it’s simple, but I’m missing something.

Thanks so much and happy Friday,

Jennifer

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[Robert Kersemakers]

Hi Jennifer,

Try this to remove the last .br from var1 and put the result in var2:

Code:

regsub -all {\.br\$} $var1 “” var2

This will only work if the .br is the last string in the line! I think this will do, but if there is text after the last .br, you will need some more code…

Zuyderland Medisch Centrum; Heerlen/Sittard; The Netherlands

[Jennifer Schlender]

Robert,

Thanks for the regular expression help. I had the $ in front of the \.br\, not behind it.  

Jennifer

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