delete end chars

[JB]

Hi Richmond,

Wouldn’t that just delete the last char?  I need to
check for all characters in the first string to see if
they all exist in the same order of the last chars
of the second string.  I know I could use a repeat
to see if the characters all exist and then if they
do I could use a repeat that many times to delete
the last character.  I was thinking there might be
a faster or at least smaller way to write the code.
Would a regex be better and if so how do you
write the regex properly?

John Balgenorth


On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:14 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:

> On 24/08/14 17:12, JB wrote:
>> If I have a certain amount of characters
>> and I want to check the end of another
>> line of characters to see if they are there
>> and if so then delete them what is the
>> fastest way to do delete the characters
>> at the end of the specified line?
>> 
>> 
> 
> delete last char of XYZ [where 'XYZ" is a string]
> 
> delete last char of fld "XYZ"
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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