Regex to find last space character

Question

I am looking for a regex that will give me the index of the last space in a string using javascript.

I was using goolge to find a suitable regex, but no success. Even the SO-Question Regex to match last space character does not hold a solution because the goal there was to remove more than one character in the end.

What is the correct regex?

Answer 1

As I commented I would just use lastIndexOf() but here is a regex solution:

The regex / [^ ]*$/ finds the last space character in a string. Use it like this:

// Alerts 9
alert("this is a str".search(/ [^ ]*$/));