Ends with.. How did I not know about that? On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnm...@gmail.com> wrote:
> if char -2 to -1 of MNOSE = "$W" should work. > > LAST doesn't return a numeric value (as far as I can tell) so you can't > subtract from it, if you do you get strange results > > In addition, the order matters. You're putting the last char first, and > the second to last char last (if you were allowed to use last that way) So > if it did work, you'd be checking W$ against $W > > You could do it other ways too of course. You could use (char > length(MNOSE) -1 of MNOSE & char length(MNOSE) of mNose) to do the > comparison.. Note the -1 is first to keep the characters in order. > > > > > On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Richmond via use-livecode < > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com> wrote: > >> Suppose I have a string a bit like this: >> >> "and then the gigantic monster bit my mother on the nose $W" >> >> and I want to check that that string ends with "$W" . . . >> >> I tried this (pseudo code): >> >> *if the ((last char) & (last char -1)) of MNOSE = "$W"* >> >> and it did not work. >> >> >> Richmond. >> >> _______________________________________________ >> 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
