| User: editor -- 2008-08-09 |
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| Type: Advanced search and replace |
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| Description: |
| How to replace the last occurance of some text like 'abc' to 'def' in a text file? |
| Input Sample: |
| first occurance of abc second occurance of abc other text last occurance of abc other text |
| Output Sample: |
| first occurance of abc second occurance of abc other text last occurance of def other text |
| Answer: |
| Hint: You need to Download and install "Replace Pioneer" to finish following steps. |
| 1. ctrl-o open text file 2. ctrl-h open 'Replace' dialog set "Search for pattern" to: set "Replace with Pattern" to: 3. click 'Replace', done! Note: .*?abc will match from beginning to first 'abc', .*abc will match from beginning to last 'abc'. chars($match,1,-4) means keep from 1st to -4th characters(remove last 3 chars:abc) |
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