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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

XSLT Function Declaration

<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

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

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