RIGHT¶

Returns the rightmost characters of a string.

Signature¶

    ┌─────────┐
IN ─┤         │
    │  RIGHT  ├─ OUT
 L ─┤         │
    └─────────┘

FUNCTION RIGHT : ANY_STRING
  VAR_INPUT
    IN : ANY_STRING;
    L  : ANY_INT;
  END_VAR
END_FUNCTION

The return type matches the type of IN. RIGHT accepts STRING for IN; L is INT.

Inputs

Name	Type	Description
`IN`	`ANY_STRING`	The source string.
`L`	`INT`	Number of rightmost characters to return.

Outputs

Name	Type	Description
Return value	`ANY_STRING`	The rightmost L characters of IN. Same type as IN.

Returns the rightmost L characters of IN. If L is greater than or equal to the length of IN, the entire string is returned.

Try it

Source

result := RIGHT('Hello', 3);    (* result = 'llo' *)
result := RIGHT('Hi', 10);      (* result = 'Hi' *)