Find index of last occurrence of a substring in a string

Question

I want to find the position (or index) of the last occurrence of a certain substring in given input string str.

For example, suppose the input string is

Answer 1

you can use rindex() function to get the last occurrence of a character in string

s="hellloooloo"
b='l'
print(s.rindex(b))

Answer 2

Python String rindex() Method

Description
Python string method rindex() returns the last index where the substring str is found, or raises an exception if no such index exists, optionally restricting the search to string[beg:end].

Syntax
Following is the syntax for rindex() method −

str.rindex(str, beg=0 end=len(string))

Parameters
str − This specifies the string to be searched.

beg − This is the starting index, by default its 0

len − This is ending index, by default its equal to the length of the string.

Return Value
This method returns last index if found otherwise raises an exception if str is not found.

Example
The following example shows the usage of rindex() method.

Live Demo

!/usr/bin/python

str1 = "this is string example....wow!!!";
str2 = "is";

print str1.rindex(str2)
print str1.index(str2)

When we run above program, it produces following result −

5
2

Ref: Python String rindex() Method - Tutorialspoint

Answer 3

Try this:

s = 'hello plombier pantin'
print (s.find('p'))
6
print (s.index('p'))
6
print (s.rindex('p'))
15
print (s.rfind('p'))