How to replace the last occurrence of a substring in ruby?

Question

I want to replace the last occurrence of a substring in Ruby. What\'s the easiest way? For example, in abc123abc123, I want to replace the last abc

Answer 1

How about

new_str = old_str.reverse.sub(pattern.reverse, replacement.reverse).reverse

For instance:

irb(main):001:0> old_str = "abc123abc123"
=> "abc123abc123"
irb(main):002:0> pattern="abc"
=> "abc"
irb(main):003:0> replacement="ABC"
=> "ABC"
irb(main):004:0> new_str = old_str.reverse.sub(pattern.reverse, replacement.reverse).reverse
=> "abc123ABC123"