Last word in a sentence: In SQL (regular expressions possible?)

Question

I need this to be done in Oracle SQL (10gR2). But I guess, I would rather put it plainly, any good, efficient algorithm is fine.

Given a line (or sentence, containing

Answer 1

this leaves the punctuation but gets the final word

with datam as (
SELECT 'abc asdb.' A FROM DUAL UNION
select 'ipso factum' a from dual union
select 'ipso factum' a from dual union
SELECT 'ipso factum2' A FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT 'ipso factum!' A FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT 'ipso factum  !' A FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT 'ipso factum/**//*/?.?' A FROM DUAL UNION
SELECT 'ipso factum  ...??!?!**' A FROM DUAL UNION
select 'ipso factum ..d.../.>' a from dual 

)
SELECT a,
--REGEXP_SUBSTR(A, '[[:alnum:]]_+$', 1, 1, 'c') , /** these are the other examples*/
--REGEXP_SUBSTR(A, '\S+$') ,  /** these are the other examples*/
regexp_substr(a, '[a-zA-Z]+[^a-zA-Z]*$')  

from datam