[Resolved] Sub string within a string

Hi

New to VB, but not to programming.

I need to search lines of text for substrings.

I recon LastIndexOfAny is the way to go.

As an example, if I wanted to find the last occurance of the word "for"

in: "This string is just for tests purposes and should not be taken for any other reasons."

When I have tried various ways I get it returning an index of one of the letters of 'for' or at least that is what it looks like.

I would be looking for a reply of 63 for the string above (presuming I counted corectly) as it's the last occurence of for. Not a return indicating the last occurance of 'o' instead or some other reply.

Code:

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current_line = "This string is just for tests purposes and should not be used for any other reasons."
count2 = current_line.LastIndexOfAny("for")

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I get the result of 63 using "LastIndexOf" (the first character position is zero).

Code:

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        Dim s As String = "This string is just for tests purposes and should not be taken for any other reasons."
        MessageBox.Show(s.LastIndexOf("for"))

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I get 80. As though it is returning the postion of a character in another word, not the whole word. And it is the whole word I am looking for.

No matter i feel stupid. Got it now.:)