jekyll-replace-last

A straightforward Jekyll filter plugin that can be used to replace the last occurrence of a substring within a string. Functional counterpart to replace_first.

Equivalent to:

# when:
# content = "hello hello world"
# str_to_replace = "hello".reverse
# replacement = "hi".reverse

{{ content | split: "" | reverse | join: "" | replace_first: str_to_replace, replacement | split: "" | reverse | join: "" }}
=> hello hi world

Installation

gem install jekyll-replace-last

Usage

Jekyll:

{{ "hello hello world" | replace_last: "hello", "hi" }}
=> hello hi world

in Gemfile

...
group :jekyll_plugins do
  ...
  gem 'jekyll-replace-last'

in _config.yml

...
plugins:
  ...
  - jekyll-replace-last

Ruby:

require 'jekyll-replace-last'
include Jekyll::ReplaceLastFilter
replace_last("only one non-breaking space, and at the very end", " ", " ")

=> only one non-breaking space, and at the very end