----- Original Message -----
From: Andy Gates <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
To: <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
Sent: Tuesday, June 27, 2000 1:39 PM
Subject: [Zope] Newbie: String work
> Simple stuff from the simple people today: string manipulation.
>
> I have a string variable which has various chunks delimited by double
> tildes ~~. In order to do what I need to do, I need to extract the
> section of the string after the last double-tilde, so that
>
> "fred~~bloggs" returns "bloggs"
> "fred" returns "fred"
> "fred~~bloggs~aardvark" returns "aardvark"
>
> I can see that rfind is the thing I need to use, but as usual (gah!
> newbie!) I'm stuck on the syntax. Help!
Maybe is a little strange , but should work (I hope:)
<dtml-let a="'abc~~ABC~~s'">
<dtml-var "a[((_.string.rfind(a,'~~')+1) or-1 )+1:]">
</dtml-let>
Or maybe is better to use split, is more readable
<dtml-var "_.string.split(a,'~~')[-1]">
PM
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