Last but one

[richmond62]

So, here I am trying to analyse a whopping-great text for words with certain
suffixes (= bits that go on the end of words) . . .

Now, it is dead easy to analyse texts for prefixes (= bits that go on the front of words)
using a series of nested loops for char 1, char, char 3 and so on . . .

Now I can ask questions about the last char of a word . . .

But, short of popping that word into a variable and nipping characters of the end
sequentially it seems "a bit of a pain" as I cannot do this sort of thing . . .

pseudoCode

last char
(last -1) char
(last -2) char

nicht?

[Klaus]

Maybe you mean:
char -1 of xxx ## = last char
char -2 of xxx ## = last but one char
char -3 of xxx ## = you guess...
?

[richmond62]

Wow, Klaus, you're the man!

[bogs]

Or if you combined those and cut out the middle, (if your talking about *just* the last 3 characters) why not

char -3 to -1 of xxx ## = last 3 chars

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put "working" into tmpWord; put char -3 to -1 of tmpWord

= "ing"

[richmond62]

Wow: I could get completely "bogged" down.

[bogs]

I know I do