Remove last occurrence of character

Question

A question came across talkstats.com today in which the poster wanted to remove the last period of a string using regex (not strsplit). I made an attempt to do thi

Answer 1

I'm sure you know this by now since you use stringi in your packages, but you can simply do

N <- c("59.22.07", "58.01.32", "57.26.49")

stringi::stri_replace_last_fixed(N, ".", "")
# [1] "59.2207" "58.0132" "57.2649"