Re: last three characters of a string

On Tue, 10 Apr 2001 12:18, Joseph Bannon wrote: > I need to examine the last 3 characters of a string. Is there code that > does that? > > J You can extract them with substr - there are examples in the docs which demonstrate the use of negative start parameters to work backwards from the end of a string. You might want to trim the string first if you don't want any whitespace of EOL characters. -- David Robley | WEBMASTER & Mail List Admin RESEARCH CENTRE FOR INJURY STUDIES | http://www.nisu.flinders.edu.au/ AusEinet | http://auseinet.flinders.edu.au/ Flinders University, ADELAIDE, SOUTH AUSTRALIA