RegEx that will match the last occurrence of dot in a string

Question

I have a filename that can have multiple dots in it and could end with any extension:

tro.lo.lo.lo.lo.lo.png

I need to use a regex to repla

Answer 1

You do not need a regex for this. String.lastIndexOf will do.

var str = 'tro.lo.lo.lo.lo.lo.zip';
var i = str.lastIndexOf('.');
if (i != -1) {
    str = str.substr(0, i) + "@2x" + str.substr(i);
}

See it in action.

Update: A regex solution, just for the fun of it:

str = str.replace(/\.(?=[^.]*$)/, "@2x.");

Matches a literal dot and then asserts ((?=) is positive lookahead) that no other character up to the end of the string is a dot. The replacement should include the one dot that was matched, unless you want to remove it.

Answer 2

Just use special replacement pattern $1 in the replacement string:

console.log("tro.lo.lo.lo.lo.lo.png".replace(/\.([^.]+)$/, "@2x.$1"));
// "tro.lo.lo.lo.lo.lo@2x.png"

Answer 3

Use \. to match a dot. The character . matches any character.

Therefore str.replace(/\.([^\.]*)$/, ' @2x.').