rindex()
Return the last occurrence of one text string within another.
Syntax
Parameter
Parameter | Definition |
|---|---|
text | text to be examined for occurrences of string The text can be a text string enclosed in double quotation marks, or one or more PSL commands that produce text. |
string | one or more characters whose last occurrence is being identified within text |
Description
The rindex() function returns the position of the last occurrence of string in text or 0 if string does not occur in text. Positions in string are numbered starting from one and are indicated as integers.
Example
The following is an example of the rindex() function:
sentence = "The quick brown fox jumped over the lazy dogs";
findme = "he";
print("The last occurrence is in position ",rindex(sentence,findme));
This example produces the following output: