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Originally posted by: svimes

Can one do a string find from the right rather than the left eg to get the last "a" in the string rather than the first.

I know I could do a progressive find then right but that will mean lots of IF statements / iterations if there are a lot of "a"s in the string.

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Originally posted by: mgajdosik

You can reverse the string using the following syntax and then use strFind on it... this is simple solution that will work for you assuming you have small amount of data...

reversed = ""
i = FIELD.len()
while (i>-1) {
reversed = reversed + ( FIELD.substr(i,1))
i = i-1
}

there is also a python way, which is way nice, but you would have to use python node for that... in python you have rfind function... to reverse string in python you can do
'STRING'[::-1] which will result in 'GNIRTS'