Filter substring

[Richard Gaskin]

Hans Ydelm wrote:

> Probably a simple question but since I am a beginner :-) How can you
> extract a substring from a string? I would like to change an absolute
> path name to a relative one, e.g,
> 
> /home/hans/project/fileorder/src
> 
> change to:
> 
> fileorder/src


on mouseUp
  put ClipPath("/home/hans/project/fileorder/src", "/home/hans/project")
end mouseUp


function ClipPath pPath, pPartToClip
   set the itemDel to "/"
   get the number of items of pPartToClip
   delete item 1 to it of pPath
   return pPath
end ClipPath



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