String.LastIndexOf Method (Char)
Reports the zero-based index position of the last occurrence of a specified Unicode character within this instance.
Assembly: mscorlib (in mscorlib.dll)
Parameters
- value
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Type:
System.Char
The Unicode character to seek.
Return Value
Type: System.Int32The zero-based index position of value if that character is found, or -1 if it is not.
Index numbering starts from zero. That is, the first character in the string is at index zero and the last is at Length - 1.
This method begins searching at the last character position of this instance and proceeds backward toward the beginning until either value is found or the first character position has been examined. The search is case-sensitive.
This method performs an ordinal (culture-insensitive) search, where a character is considered equivalent to another character only if their Unicode scalar values are the same. To perform a culture-sensitive search, use the CompareInfo.LastIndexOf method, where a Unicode scalar value representing a precomposed character, such as the ligature "Æ" (U+00C6), might be considered equivalent to any occurrence of the character's components in the correct sequence, such as "AE" (U+0041, U+0045), depending on the culture.
The following example defines an ExtractFilename method that uses the LastIndexOf(Char) method to find the last directory separator character in a string and to extract the string's file name. If the file exists, the method returns the file name without its path.
using System; using System.IO; public class TestLastIndexOf { public static void Main() { string filename; filename = ExtractFilename(@"C:\temp\"); Console.WriteLine("{0}", String.IsNullOrEmpty(filename) ? "<none>" : filename); filename = ExtractFilename(@"C:\temp\delegate.txt"); Console.WriteLine("{0}", String.IsNullOrEmpty(filename) ? "<none>" : filename); filename = ExtractFilename("delegate.txt"); Console.WriteLine("{0}", String.IsNullOrEmpty(filename) ? "<none>" : filename); filename = ExtractFilename(@"C:\temp\notafile.txt"); Console.WriteLine("{0}", String.IsNullOrEmpty(filename) ? "<none>" : filename); } public static string ExtractFilename(string filepath) { // If path ends with a "\", it's a path only so return String.Empty. if (filepath.Trim().EndsWith(@"\")) return String.Empty; // Determine where last backslash is. int position = filepath.LastIndexOf('\\'); // If there is no backslash, assume that this is a filename. if (position == -1) { // Determine whether file exists in the current directory. if (File.Exists(Environment.CurrentDirectory + Path.DirectorySeparatorChar + filepath)) return filepath; else return String.Empty; } else { // Determine whether file exists using filepath. if (File.Exists(filepath)) // Return filename without file path. return filepath.Substring(position + 1); else return String.Empty; } } }
Available since 8
.NET Framework
Available since 1.1
Portable Class Library
Supported in: portable .NET platforms
Silverlight
Available since 2.0
Windows Phone Silverlight
Available since 7.0
Windows Phone
Available since 8.1