functx:substring-before-last
The substring before the last occurrence of a delimiter
Description
The functx:substring-before-last function returns the part of $arg that appears before the last occurrence of $delim. If $arg does not contain $delim, a zero-length string is returned.
Parameters |
Description |
|---|---|
arg:string() |
the string to substring |
delim:string() |
the delimiter |
Examples
XPath |
Results |
|---|---|
functx:substring-before-last(‘abc-def-ghi’, ‘-‘) |
abc-def |
functx:substring-before-last(‘abcd-abcd’, ‘ab’) |
abcd- |
functx:substring-before-last(‘abcd-abcd’, ‘x’) |
zero-length string |