Name

findlastof — Searches string for the last match

Synopsis

integer findlastof ( string STRING ,
  string CHARS );
 

Parameters

string STRING

String

string CHARS

Characters to find

Return

integer

the position of the last character in STRING that is contained in CHARS.

Description

The `findlastof' function searches string for the last match of any character stored in chars and returns its position.

Usage

  findlastof ("abcdecfghi", "cxdv") -> 5
  findlastof ("aaaaa", "z") -> nil