Re^2: regexp find last word

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That just puts 'the' in front of the last fox, without considering the forest at all. It doesn't put 'the' in front of the last fox before a forest, except when that also happens to be the last fox on the line. That is, it will turn

    fox comes and fox goes into the forest. No fox left
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into

    fox comes and fox goes into the forest. No the fox left
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Re^3: regexp find last word by Fletch (Bishop) on Mar 02, 2005 at 15:04 UTC
What, you mean he didn't see the forrest for the thes?	[reply]
Re^3: regexp find last word by borisz (Canon) on Mar 02, 2005 at 15:03 UTC
Thats right, I was just to lazy to reverse forest.* as well. But the idea is to reverse the string and replace the first. Boris	[reply]

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