RegEx drop everything after last pattern

From: Date: Fri, 23 Dec 2005 18:27:09 +0000
Subject: RegEx drop everything after last pattern
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Okay, maybe it's just the fact that I'm concentration on getting out of here for the holidays more than I am on my work, but I'm pulling my hair out. Say I have a string - Now, is the time; for all good men! to come to the aide? of their What I want to do is drop everything after (and including) the last punctuation mark (? in this case). I've got my pattern to match any punctuation mark, but I just can't get the last one (it always hits on the first). I'd love to use the string functions, but it has to be a regular expression (right now it's punctuation, but eventually it's going to need to be just about anything; last new line, last white space, last 'b', etc). -- John C. Nichel IV Programmer/System Admin (ÜberGeek) Dot Com Holdings of Buffalo 716.856.9675 jnichel@dotcomholdingsofbuffalo.com

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