delete end chars

[JB]

Thank you very much!

I was able to get the first one to work
but for some reason and it could be
me I could not get the second one
to work.

thanks again

John Balgenorth


On Aug 24, 2014, at 10:19 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:

> Couple of other ways using regex.
> 
> get matchText(tString1,"(.*)" & tString2 & "$",tString1)
> 
> Or
> 
> if matchChunk(tString1,"(.*)" & tString2 & "$",tString1,tStart,tEnd) then
>   delete char tStart to tEnd of tString1
> end if
> 
> Pete
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> On Sun, Aug 24, 2014 at 9:28 AM, Peter Haworth <pete at lcsql.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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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