This is probably a very stupid question..
I am trying to extract a substring from a variable and am unsure how to
determine the last character...
I tried...
put char 1 to last character of tdata into tsubstring
...but this fails.
Thanks for any help!
Warren
put char 1 to -1 of tdata into tsubstring
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com
2009/8/26 Warren Kuhl warrenk...@gmail.com:
This is probably a very stupid question..
I am trying to extract a substring from a variable and am unsure how to
determine
Try char 1 to -1 of tdata.
char -1 is the last char
char -2 is the next-to-last char
and so on.
Phil Davis
Warren Kuhl wrote:
This is probably a very stupid question..
I am trying to extract a substring from a variable and am unsure how to
determine the last character...
I tried...
put
Phil/Stephen,
Thanks for your help! I never understood what the -1 meant when dealing
with characters.
Appreciate your quick responses!
Warren
On 8/26/09, Phil Davis rev...@pdslabs.net wrote:
Try char 1 to -1 of tdata.
char -1 is the last char
char -2 is the next-to-last char
and so on.
Also good for whitespace removal in some cases...
put word 1 to -1 of whatever into tOutput
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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com
2009/8/26 Warren Kuhl warrenk...@gmail.com:
Phil/Stephen,
Thanks for your help! I never understood what the -1 meant
In my book, Rev's chunking capabilities are the 8th wonder of the
modern world! Their usefulness defies description.
Phil Davis
stephen barncard wrote:
Also good for whitespace removal in some cases...
put word 1 to -1 of whatever into tOutput
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Stephen Barncard
San
As Phil said, chunking is way cool, and might be what sets our favorite
programming languages apart from all the others. HC had it because it did not
support arrays and data structures. Chunking was an answer to that
deficiency.
You should make sure you understand that the construction you
