poking around near the end of a string

[Mike Bonner]

Ends with.. How did I not know about that?

On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:46 AM, Mike Bonner <bonnmike at 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.
>
>
>
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> On Wed, May 10, 2017 at 8:18 AM, Richmond via use-livecode <
> use-livecode at 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.
>>
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