Finding last instance of a character

tclotworthy · September 27th, 2007, 10:51 AM

Is there any way to find the final instance of a character in a string without recursing from beginning to end? Thanks

mhkay · September 27th, 2007, 11:01 AM

Sure, use substring($in, string-length($in))

Michael Kay
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Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference

tclotworthy · September 27th, 2007, 11:17 AM

hmm.. not completely following. Lets say I have a variable strgVar ="I\love\to\eat\bacon", how would I use what you said above to get me the string after the last '\'? Thanks!

mhkay · September 27th, 2007, 11:22 AM

Sorry, misread the question. In 1.0 that needs recursion. In 2.0 you can use regular expressions.

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/
Author, XSLT Programmer's Reference and XPath 2.0 Programmer's Reference