Delete char in string

[Richmond]

On 19/02/14 14:09, John Dixon wrote:
> as in something like this...
>     put char 2 to (the number of chars of fld 1) of fld 1 into fld 2
>
>
Exactly:

nipping chars off strings in fields is dead easy:

delete char 1 from field "MYCRAPPYTEXT"

but I have a funny feeling that everything will move a whole lot quicker 
if one could do this sort of thing:

delete char from $MYCRAPPYTEXT

where the name with the $ is a string variable [Err . .  guess my 
FORTRAN underwear is showing]

>> Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2014 14:05:20 +0200
>> From: richmondmathewson at gmail.com
>> To: use-livecode at lists.runrev.com
>> Subject: Delete char in string
>>
>> I am trying to do this:
>>
>> delete first char of $TEXT
>>
>> where $TEXT is a string
>>
>> and seem to be getting myself into trouble.
>>
>> Richmond
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