search backward

[Robert]

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?


Thanks,
Robert

 

[Aaron Bingham]

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?

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[Steven Bethard]

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?

How about str.rfind?

py> s = 'abc:def:abc'
py> s.rfind('abc')
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Steve