Filter substring

Hans Ydelm hansydelm at ntlworld.com
Wed Jul 9 02:43:01 EDT 2003


Thanks Paul,

Works like a treat :-)

Regards,
Hans.
www.ht-lab.com

On Tue, 2003-07-08 at 11:26, Richard Gaskin wrote:
> Hans Ydelm wrote:
> 
> > Probably a simple question but since I am a beginner :-) How can you
> > extract a substring from a string? I would like to change an absolute
> > path name to a relative one, e.g,
> > 
> > /home/hans/project/fileorder/src
> > 
> > change to:
> > 
> > fileorder/src
> 
> 
> on mouseUp
>   put ClipPath("/home/hans/project/fileorder/src", "/home/hans/project")
> end mouseUp
> 
> 
> function ClipPath pPath, pPartToClip
>    set the itemDel to "/"
>    get the number of items of pPartToClip
>    delete item 1 to it of pPath
>    return pPath
> end ClipPath
> 
> 
> 
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