Ergo for last 3 words: "word -3;-2;-1" -----Original Message----- From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 4:05 PM To: [email protected] Subject: Re: SPECS again
And you're probably right that the classic approach would be your "split | take last" idiom, but that gets hairy when you have multiple records in the pipeline. So this comes handy. And when you're looking for the one-but-last it's "word -2" and it takes some time to realize that the last two words is "word -2;-1" On 30 April 2015 at 21:21, Gentry, Steve < [email protected]> wrote: > Thanks. > > -----Original Message----- > From: CMSTSO Pipelines Discussion List > [mailto:[email protected]] > On Behalf Of Rob van der Heij > Sent: Thursday, April 30, 2015 3:19 PM > To: [email protected] > Subject: Re: SPECS again > > Spec word -1 > And home work for next week is the substr in spec On Apr 30, 2015 9:16 > PM, "Gentry, Steve" < [email protected]> wrote: > > > In some recent discussions on this list we had discussed the SPEC stage. > > And, I thought, in one of the discussions a solution was presented > > on how to get the last word in a string of words. > > In the example below I'd like to get the word fox. > > pipe literal the quick fox | spec lastword | cons Of course this > > doesn't work and I've tried a few other combinations and have done > > some googleing. > > I could do it this way: pipe literal the quick fox | split | take > > last | cons But would prefer a specs method. > > So, could someone refresh my memory or is this feature/function > > wishful thinking? > > Thanks, > > Steve > > >
