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>apples, oranges, pears
>
>I'd like to make it reads:
>
>apples, oranges, or pears

No need to use a regex, especially since a regex will have to go through
the whole string.

  # if there is a comma, get the last one
  if (($last_comma = rindex($string, ",")) != -1) {
    # replace it with ", or"
    substr($string, $last_comma, 1, ", or");
  }

The regex to do that would be

  s/,(?=[^,]*$)/, or/;

Maybe you'd like to use the regex approach, though.

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