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Find last occurance of a substring within a string

I have the following string: which begins after the last '//':

"abc//def//hij//I am the owner"

I need to return "I am the owner" which always begins after the last '//':

The length of the final substring can vary.

What is the best way to do this?

Thanks

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Randy Downs

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Eddie Shipman

You can use this Regex and then remove the 2 slashes at the beginning:

//(?:.(?!//))+$

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David L. Hansen

Dim myString As String = "abc//def//hij//I am the owner"
Dim arr As String()
arr = myString.Split(CChar("//")
messagebox.show(arr(arr.Length).ToString

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David L. Hansen

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David L. Hansen

Sorry, this should work:

        Dim myString As String = "abc//def//hij//I am the owner"
        Dim arr As String()
        myString.Replace("//", "#")
        arr = myString.Split(CChar("#"))
        MessageBox.Show(arr(arr.Length)).ToString()

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