#!/usr/bin/perl

# Idiom #296 Replace last occurrence of substring

$x = 'A BB CCC this DDD EEEE this FFF';
$y = 'this';
$z = 'that';

$x2 = $x;
$pos = rindex $x, $y;
substr($x2, $pos, length($y)) = $z
    unless $pos == -1;

print $x2;