REXX - find the last occurrence of a character in a string.

[Router]

Hi,

I'm writing a REXX program and in the process need to know the last occurrence of a particular character, (position) in a string. Is there any built-in function for this?

[Anuj Dhawan]

LASTPOS (Last Position) returns the position of the last occurrence of one string, needle, in another, haystack. (See also the POS function.) Returns 0 if needle is the null string or is not found. By default the search starts at the last character of haystack and scans backward. You can override this by specifying start, the point at which the backward scan starts. start must be a positive whole number and defaults to LENGTH(haystack) if larger than that value or omitted.

Please try above and it should work for you.

[Router]

Thanks for the link Anuj - that works great.

[Anuj Dhawan]

Glad, that you get it going...

Regards,