Assistance with Regular Expression and Tcl

Assistance with Regular Expression and Tcl
Hello Everyone,
  I recently began learning Tcl to develop scripts for automating network switch deployments. 
In my script, I want to name the device with a location and the last three octets of the base mac address.
I can get the Base MAC address by : 
show version | include Base
 Base ethernet MAC Address       : 00:00:00:DB:CE:00
And I can get the last three octets of the MAC address using the following regular expression. 
([0-9a-f]{2}[:-]){2}([0-9a-f]{2}$)
But I have not been able to figure out how to call the regular expression in the tcl script.
I have checked several resources but have not been able to figure it out.  Suggestions?
Ultimately, I want to set the last three octets to a variable (something like below) and then call the variable when I name the switch.
set mac [exec "sh version | i Base"] (include the regular expression)
ios_config "hostname location$mac"
Thanks for any assistance in advance.
Chris

This worked for me.
Switch_1(tcl)#set result [exec show ver | inc Base]   
Base ethernet MAC Address       : 00:1B:D4:F8:B1:80
Switch_1(tcl)#regexp {([0-9A-F:]{8}\r)} $result -> mac
1
Switch_1(tcl)#puts $mac                               
F8:B1:80
Switch_1(tcl)#ios_config "hostname location$mac"      
%Warning! Hostname should contain at least one alphabet or '-' or '_' character
locationF8:B1:80(tcl)#

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