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LastDelimiter

unit
Sysutils
category
string handling routines

declaration
function LastDelimiter(const Delimiters, S: string): integer;

description
Returns the index of the last occurence in a string of the characters cpecified.

If none of the characters in Delimiters appears in string S, function returns zero. Delimiters cannot be a multibyte string, and we cannot use #0 as one of the delimiters.

example
var s : string;
    i : integer;

s:='http://delphi.about.com';
i:= LastDelimiter('.', s);
//i=20;

in real code
String Types in Delphi
Understanding and managing string data types in Delphi's Object Pascal. Learn about differences between Short, Long, Wide and null-terminated strings.

see also
IsDelimiter, IsPathDelimiter


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