Format
findlasttext(Haystack,Needle,Start=0,End=1)
Returns
The last position of Needle in Haystack; 0 if not found.
Args
Haystack: The text string to search.Needle: The sub-text to search for.Start: The text byte position in Haystack in which to begin the search. Because this searches backwards, the default is the end of the string (0).End: The earliest position in Haystack that can be matched as a result.
This instruction is NOT sensitive to the case of Haystack or Needle. The case-sensitive version is findlasttextEx().
If the start or end position is negative, the position is counted backwards from the end of the string. E.g., findlasttext(“Banana”, “na”, -3) starts three characters from the end and will skip over the last “na”.
Note
Unlike findtext(), a regular expression may NOT be used as the Needle. Searching backwards is simply too complex for the regular expression engine.
Note
In strings containing non-ASCII characters, byte position and character position are not the same thing. Use
findlasttext_char()to work with character counts instead of bytes, at a performance cost. See the Unicode section for more information.