lastIndexOf.String: Gets the last position of a character or a substring

In HenrikBengtsson/R.lang: [R] Class Library - Basic classes

Description

Gets the last position of the character or the substring s starting from fromIndex.

Usage

## S3 method for class 'String'
lastIndexOf(this, s, fromIndex=0, ...)

Arguments

fromIndex

The index to start the search from.

Value

Returns the position. If no such character exists, -1 is returned.

Author(s)

Henrik Bengtsson (http://www.braju.com/R/)

See Also

*indexOf(), *charAt()

Examples

  s <- String("Hello world!")
  lastIndexOf(s, " ")               # 5
  lastIndexOf(s, "l")               # 9
  lastIndexOf(s, "l", fromIndex=5)  # 3
  lastIndexOf("Hello world!", " ")  # 5

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