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Asked: May 13, 20262026-05-13T10:19:48+00:00 2026-05-13T10:19:48+00:00

From some arbitrary position in a string I need to find the closest position

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From some arbitrary position in a string I need to find the closest position of a character to the left of my position. If I want to perform this operation to the right I could just use .IndexOf, but how to do it to the left I am unsure.

The two ways I came up with were just a decrementing loop starting at my position or, putting the string in reverse and using a normal .IndexOf

Anyone else have any better ways of achieving this?

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    2026-05-13T10:19:49+00:00Added an answer on May 13, 2026 at 10:19 am

    What about:

    yourstring.LastIndexOf("foo", 0, currentPosition)                                  
    
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