Determine last character of a variable

[stephen barncard]

Also good for whitespace removal in some cases...

put word 1 to -1 of whatever into tOutput

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Stephen Barncard
San Francisco
http://barncard.com



2009/8/26 Warren Kuhl <warrenkuhl at gmail.com>:
> Phil/Stephen,
>
> Thanks for your help!  I never understood what the -1 meant when dealing
> with characters.
>
> Appreciate your quick responses!
> Warren
>
>
> On 8/26/09, Phil Davis <revdev at pdslabs.net> wrote:
>>
>> 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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>>
>> --
>> Phil Davis
>>
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