Delete char in string

[Richmond]

On 19/02/14 17:42, Earthednet-wp wrote:
> What about:
>
> Replace char 1 of mystring with ""

delete char 1 of $string works; that is not the problem.

Richmond.

>
> 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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