Delete char in string

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What about:

Replace char 1 of mystring with ""

Bill

William Prothero
http://es.earthednet.org

> On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:28 AM, Richmond <richmondmathewson at gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> 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
> 
> Oddly enough THIS works:
> 
> put fld "INN" into $INN
> delete char 1 of $INN
> put $INN into fld "OWT"
> 
> BUT, BUT, BIG UNCOMFORTABLE BUT, this:
> 
> 
> put fld "INN" into $INN
> put fld "URTEXT" into $URTEXT
>   repeat until $URTEXT is empty
>   if $INN contains the first char of $URTEXT then
>      put the first char of $URTEXT after $OUTTEXT
>      delete the first char of $URTEXT
>   else
>      delete the first char of $URTEXT
>   end if
> end repeat
> put $OUTTEXT into fld "fOUTTEXT"
> 
> Maybe this is because one cannot use CONTAINS with a string variable, Dunno.
> 
> Richmond.
> 
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