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<paragraph id="hd_id3155934" role="heading" level="1" xml-lang="en-US"><link href="text/sbasic/shared/03120411.xhp" name="InStrRev Function">InStrRev Function [VBA]</link></paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153990" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">Returns the position of a string within another string, starting from the right side of the string. </paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3147303" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">The InStrRev function returns the position at which the match was found, from the right. If the string was not found, the function returns 0.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3146957" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US">InStrRev (Text1 As String, Text2 As String [,Start As Long] [, Compare As Integer])</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_id3145609" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text1:</emph> The string expression that you want to search.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3147559" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Text2:</emph> The string expression that you want to search for.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153126" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Start: </emph>Optional numeric expression that marks the position <emph>from the left </emph>in a string where the search for the specified substring starts. If you omit this parameter, the search starts at the last character of the string. The maximum allowed value is 65535.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3154758" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US"> <emph>Compare:</emph> Optional numeric expression that defines the type of comparison. The value of this parameter can be </paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id051920170326028042" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">1: The default value of 1 specifies a text comparison that is not case-sensitive.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id051920170326027721" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">0: The value of 0 specifies a binary comparison that is case-sensitive.</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id3153361" role="paragraph" xml-lang="en-US">To avoid a run-time error, do not set the Compare parameter if the first return parameter is omitted.</paragraph>
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<paragraph id="par_idm1341611120" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim sInput As String</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341609888" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US">Dim iPos As Integer</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id31447606588" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> sInput = "The book is on the table"</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id31541255547" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> iPos = InStrRev(sInput,"the",10,1) ' Returns 1, search is case-insensitive</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_idm1341605120" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print iPos </paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id05192017032" role="bascode" xml-lang="en-US"> iPos = InStrRev(sInput,"the",10,0) ' Returns 0, search is case-sensitive</paragraph>
<paragraph id="par_id05192017032" role="bascode" localize="false" xml-lang="en-US"> Print iPos</paragraph>
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