string.rfind() - string

             
The method rfind() returns the last index where the substring str is found, or -1 if no such index exists, optionally restricting the search to string[beg:end].


str -- This specifies the string to be searched.
beg -- This is the starting index, by default its 0.
end -- This is the ending index, by default its equal to the length of the string.

Syntax

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

Example

#!/usr/bin/python

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

print str1.rfind(str2)

print str1.rfind(str2, 0, 10)
print str1.rfind(str2, 10, 0)

print str1.find(str2)
print str1.find(str2, 0, 10)
print str1.find(str2, 10, 0)

Output / Return Value

When we run above program, it produces following result −


5
5
-1
2
2
-1

Limitations

Alternatives / See Also

Reference