search backward

[Aaron Bingham]

Robert wrote:
> I need to find the location of a short string in a long string. The
> problem however is that i need to search backward.
> 
> Does anybody know how to search in reverse direction?

 >>> "foofoo".find("foo")
0
 >>> "foofoo".rfind("foo")
3
 >>> "foofoo".index("foo")
0
 >>> "foofoo".rindex("foo")
3

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Aaron Bingham
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Cenix BioScience GmbH
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