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Strip Last Match Function
String Replacements Class

Public Function StripLastMatch( _
      ByVal vLine As Variant _
    , ByVal vFind As Variant _
    , Optional ByVal vCompare As Variant _
    ) As Variant

Find and remove the last occurrence of one string within another.
Like the StripFirstMatch function excepts that it searches backwards from the end of the string.

Examples: 
    StripLastMatch("This is a test.", "s") = "This is a tet."
    StripLastMatch("This is a test.", "1") = "This is a test."
    StripLastMatch("This is a test.", "") = "This is a test." ' Behavior #3
See also: 
    StripMatchingEndLine Function
    StripFirstMatch Function
vLine: The string in which the last occurrences of vFind is to be removed. Function returns Null if vLine is Null or cannot be fixed up to a String (Behavior #1).

vFind: The string which is to be removed from vLine the last time it occurs. Function returns Null if vFind is Null or cannot be fixed up to a String (Behavior #2). Function returns vLine unchanged if vFind is an empty string (Behavior #3).

vCompare: Specifies the type of comparison used to determine if the strings match (Behavior #4). vCompare defaults to Binary comparisons if it is missing or Null or cannot be fixed up to a number (Behavior #5).

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