Determine last character of a variable

Phil Davis revdev at pdslabs.net
Wed Aug 26 13:44:25 EDT 2009


Try "char 1 to -1 of tdata".

char -1 is the last char
char -2 is the next-to-last char
and so on.

Phil Davis


Warren Kuhl wrote:
> This is probably a very stupid question..
>
> I am trying to extract a substring from a variable and am unsure how to
> determine the last character...
>
> I tried...
> put char 1 to last character of tdata into tsubstring
> ...but this fails.
>
> Thanks for any help!
> Warren
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