Re: the last substring

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At 19:50 18-11-2001, Steve Ball wrote:
>yan bai wrote:
>
>>I have an element like:
>><elem>xxxxx.xxxxx.xxxx.1234</elem>
>>
>>I know substring-before() will read the value before
>>the first '.'.
>>I wonder how I can read the value after the last '.',
>>namely 1234.
>
>
>Last week I added a new template to the XSLT Standard Library
>for retrieving the substring after the last occurrance of
>a given substring.

You could also try

reverse(substring-before(reverse(.),'.'))

I was a little startled myself to find that there was no ends-with() 
function, but a similar approach worked there, too.

~Chris
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