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Feature request: parameter expansion, replace last occurrence

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Hi,
While programming a script I found it useful to have parameter expansion 
replace the last occurrence of a given substring instead of the first 
but fund no way to do it. I hope this is the correct place for feature 
requests since I found no searchable location for them to check if it 
was already there.

The idea would be to have a third option to the already existing two:

|${PARAMETER/PATTERN} # replaces first occurrence|

|${PARAMETER//PATTERN} # replaces all occurrences|

I was thinking about |${PARAMETER/%PATTERN} but that is already taken by 
anchored replacement.

With best regards,
Alan
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Dr. Alan Beccati
Jacobs University Bremen gGmbH
Department of Life Sciences and Chemistry
Guest scientist at Max Planck Institute for Marine Microbiology
Microbial Genomics and Bioinformatics Research Group
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Germany
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Feature request: parameter expansion, replace last occurrence Alan Beccati <abeccati@mpi-bremen.de> - 2018-07-30 16:59 +0200

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