last index of an ocurrence ???

[AcidGuy]

hi guys !

is there a way to look to the last index of a character on a string, since i
have been checking the help on coldfusion mx and i can find the refence of
Find, and just works for searching the first ocurrence, and the last one ???

anyone can help ?

thx

[Adam Cameron]

> I don't know if there is a lastIndexOf function, but you could always

CF Strings extend Java Strings, so you can just use the lastIndexOf()
method of java.lang.String.
--

Adam

[Cannikinn]

You can always use REFind with "returnsubexpressions" set to "true". What this
does is return two arrays, one with the every position in the string that it
found your search term, and another with the length of the match. Once you get
that, just look at the last position. So you'd have something like:

<cfset theString = "Cats are cool. I like cats. Cats are my friends. How many
cats do you have?">
<cfset theMatch = "cats">
<cfset findResult = REFind(theMatch,theString,1,true>

So now findResult looks something like:

findResult.pos[1] = 1;
findResult.pos[2] = 23;
findResult.pos[3] = 29;
findResult.pos[4] = 59;

findResult.len[1] = 4;
findResult.len[2] = 4;
findResult.len[3] = 4;
findResult.len[4] = 4;

And if you wanted to know the position of the very last occurance, just go:

<cfset lastMatchPosition = findResult.pos[Len(findResult.pos)]>

Because Len(findResult.pos) will always return the index of the last match.

Hope that helps!

[_jt]

I don't know if there is a lastIndexOf function, but you could always
reverse the string and find the first index. Then just adjust that number to
reflect the position from the end of the string.
"AcidGuy" <webforumsuser@macromedia.com> wrote in message
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> hi guys !
>
> is there a way to look to the last index of a character on a string,

since i

> have been checking the help on coldfusion mx and i can find the refence of
> Find, and just works for searching the first ocurrence, and the last one

???

>
> anyone can help ?
>
> thx
>

[_jt]

Good tip!

"Adam Cameron" <adam_junk@hotmail.com> wrote in message
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> > I don't know if there is a lastIndexOf function, but you could always

>
> CF Strings extend Java Strings, so you can just use the lastIndexOf()
> method of java.lang.String.
> --
>
> Adam