Name

findlastnotof — Searches the last element of string that doesn't match

Synopsis

integer findlastnotof ( string  STRING,
  string  CHARS);

Parameters

string STRING

string CHARS

Characters

Return

integer

The position of the last character in STRING that is NOT contained in CHARS.

Description

The `findlastnotof' function searches the last element of string that doesn't match any character stored in chars and returns its position.

If no match is found the function returns `nil'.

Usage

  findlastnotof( "abcdefghi", "abcefghi" ) -> 3 ('d')
  findlastnotof("aaaaa", "a") -> nil