delete end chars

[Peter M. Brigham]

function zapAtEndOfLine tStr, tContainer
   put cr after tContainer
   replace tStr & cr with cr in tContainer
   return char 1 to -2 of tContainer
end zapAtEndOfLine

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
pmbrig at gmail.com
http://home.comcast.net/~pmbrig


On Aug 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, JB wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I am saying if I have “ABC” in one string and the other string
> has “KCFAJFCABC” then I want to delete the “ABC” from
> the end of the second string leaving “KCFAJFC”.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:09 AM, dunbarx at aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> 
>> Are you saying that if you have "ABCD" and somewhere else you have: "AXFRZC" that you want to delete the "C" from the first string?
>> 
>> 
>> Whatever you want, the chunking and text control within LC is more than adequate to do the job, and will be fun do execute as well. But is this what you meant?
>> 
>> 
>> Craig Newman
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JB <sundown at pacifier.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode at lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 10:16 am
>> Subject: delete end chars
>> 
>> 
>> 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?
>> 
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