Re: substitute last space with char

On Wednesday, July 13, 2016 at 10:54:03 AM UTC-7, Tim Chase wrote:
> On 2016-07-13 10:35, Bee wrote:
> > I would like to replace the last occurrence of a space in a line
> > with a ';'.
> >
> > I know I can use:
> > g_ " goto last non-blank char in line
> > F " find the preceeding ' '
> > r; " replace with ';'
> >
> > How would this be done with :substitute ?
>
> A couple possibilities come to mind:
>
> :%s/ \ze\S*$/;
> :%s/.*\zs /;
> :%s/\(.*\) \(.*\)/\1;\2
>
> -tim

Thank you Tim.

How can it be done with the string in a register?

Bill

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