That will only give him the item, not the character position. But it's a start. You can now get the number of characters of item 1 to -2 of pText +1. I didn't know the text you were searching had regular delimiters, and you were searching for the last delimiter. That makes things *much* easier.
Bob S > On Oct 29, 2018, at 15:32 , Mark Wieder via use-livecode > <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > > On 10/29/2018 08:32 AM, Keith Clarke via use-livecode wrote: > >> I’m trying to separate paths & pages from a list of URLs and so looking to >> identify the position of the last ‘/‘ character. > > function rightmostSlashOf pText > set the itemdelimiter to "/" > return offset(item -1 of pText, pText) > end rightmostSlashOf > > -- > Mark Wieder > ahsoftw...@gmail.com > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
