RightWords()

RightWords()

Category: Text

Syntax: RightWords ( text ; numberOfWords )

Parameters: text ”any expression that resolves to a text string; numberOfWords ”any positive number or expression that returns a positive number.

Description: Returns the last n number of words in a text expression, where n is the number specified in the numberOfWords parameter.

Examples:

 RightWords ("the quick brown fox jumps" ; 3) 

Returns brown fox jumps .

 RightWords (FullName ; 1) 

Returns Smith when the FullName field contains Joe Smith.

Comments:

Be aware of what symbols are considered to be word breaks by FileMaker Pro. Spaces, return characters , and most punctuation symbols are considered to be word breaks. Multiple word breaks next to each other (for example, two spaces, a comma and a space) are considered as a single word break.

Certain punctuation symbols are word breaks when separating alpha characters, but not when separating numeric characters. These include the colon (:), slash (/), period (.), comma (,), and dash (-). For instance, RightWords ("54.6" ; 1) returns 54.6 , but RightWords ("x.y" ; 1) returns y . The reason for this behavior is that those symbols are valid date, time, and number separators.

Leading and trailing punctuation around a word will be ignored by the RightWords() function. For example, RightWords ("John Q. Public, Jr."; 2) returns Public, Jr , and RightWords ("John Q. Public, Jr."; 3) returns Q. Public, Jr .