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Dharshana_11419's avatar
Dharshana_11419
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Nov 20, 2017

findstr - sub string of last occurrence of a character to the end of the string

Hi, Can someone please help me how to find the last occurrence of a character and get a sub string from thereafter to the end of the string using findstr? i.e from XXX-GHDF-12XD45 i need to match 12X...
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Samir_Jha_52506's avatar
Samir_Jha_52506
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Nov 20, 2017

You can use 

getfield
function also to match the column if the position is known.

Example: XXX-GHDF-12XD45

        set eidval {XXX-GHDF-12XD45}
        set val [getfield $eidval "-" 3]

https://devcentral.f5.com/wiki/irules.findstr.ashx

OR

        set spr "XXXA-GHDF-12XD45"
        set sub_spr [string range $spr [string last "-" $spr]+1 end
Stanislas_Piro2's avatar
Stanislas_Piro2
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Nov 20, 2017

I also watched 

getfield
command but didn't find how to say the last field.