computeChar_rindex: Locate position of last occurence of a pattern

In translateSPSS2R: Toolset for Translating SPSS-Syntax to R-Code

Description

Helper Function for xpssCompute. R Implementation of the SPSS CHAR.RINDEX Function.

Usage

computeChar_rindex (x,pattern = NULL, split = 0)

Arguments

x	atomic character or character vector.
pattern	atomic character to look for.
split	numeric. Number of parts pattern to divide to.

Details

computeChar_index(x="Hello user", pattern="user") Returns a number indicating the character position of the last occurrence of the first letter of 'user' in 'Hello user'. The optional third argument, split, is a number, which must be a positive integer used to divide 'user' into separate strings. The split value must be able to divide the pattern string without remainder.

Value

Numeric. Position of the last occurence of the pattern

Author(s)

Bastian Wiessner

See Also

str_locate_all

Examples

xpssCompute(x="At the end i'm looking for a good end", fun="computeChar_rindex", pattern="end")

translateSPSS2R documentation built on May 30, 2017, 4:31 a.m.