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functx:substring-after-last

The substring after the last occurrence of a delimiter

Description

The functx:substring-after-last function returns the part of $arg that appears after the last occurrence of $delim. If $arg does not contain $delim, the entire $arg is returned. If $arg is the empty sequence, a zero-length string is returned.

Arguments and Return Type

Name	Type	Description
`$arg`	`xs:string?`	the string to substring
`$delim`	`xs:string`	the delimiter
return value	`xs:string`

XSLT Function Declaration

See XQuery definition.

XSLT 2.0 Syntax:

<xsl:function name="functx:substring-after-last" as="xs:string" 
              xmlns:functx="http://www.functx.com" >
  <xsl:param name="arg" as="xs:string?"/> 
  <xsl:param name="delim" as="xs:string"/> 
 
  <xsl:sequence select=" 
   replace ($arg,concat('^.*',functx:escape-for-regex($delim)),'')
 "/>
   
</xsl:function>

Examples

XSLT Example	Results
`functx:substring-after-last('abc-def-ghi', '-')`	`ghi`
`functx:substring-after-last('abcd-abcd', 'ab')`	`cd`
`functx:substring-after-last('abcd-abcd', 'x')`	`abcd-abcd`