Regular expression to get last 3 characters of a string

c#, regex

Solution

Use this regular expression :

.{3}$

If you want to avoid spaces at end and can use capturing groups (you didn't precise the language or regex flavour), use

(.{3})\s*$

But note that there's no obvious reason to use a regex here instead of slicing the string.

Problem

I want to write a regular expression which will take only last 3 char of a string and append some constant string to it. I am using C#. I am trying to make regular expression as database entry. Later Read this entry in application and do the transformation based on regex in C#. Something like : ``` stringVal.Trim().Substring(0, stringVal.Trim().Length - 3) + ".ConstantValue" ```

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