delete end chars

[Peter Haworth]

if tString1 ends with tString2 then
   delete char (the length of tString1 - the length of tString2 +1 ) to -1
of tString1
end if

Pete
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On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 8:12 AM, JB <sundown at pacifier.com> 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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