removing first characters of a string

MorgoZ · January 2013

Hi!

Is there a better way to do this?

acAux = remove_string(left_string(acMessage,2),acMessage,1)

What i´m trying to do here is just to take the first two digits from "acMessage" and remove them from the string, but i think that this code is not a pretty way to solve it....

Any ideas?

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PsyenceFact · January 2013

It's maybe slightly clearer to use:

acAux = left_string(acMessage, 2);
remove_string(acMessage, acAux, 2);

The [ CODE ] and [ /CODE ] tags are used to format code on the forum. Remove the spaces between the square brackets - I had to put them in to avoid them being used as code tags!

Andy

Jeff Lockyear · January 2013

Try acAux = GET_BUFFER_STRING(acMessage,2)

true · January 2013

acAux = right_string(acMessage, length_string(acMessage) - 2)

plenty of ways to do this

vining · January 2013

Jeff Lockyear wrote: »

Try acAux = GET_BUFFER_STRING(acMessage,2)

This would be my choice.........

true
Code:
acAux = right_string(acMessage, length_string(acMessage) - 2)

I believe this does the complete opposite and copies everything in the string into acAux except the first two chars and doesn't remove anything from the original string either.

Joe Hebert · January 2013

MorgoZ wrote: »

What i´m trying to do here is just to take the first two digits from "acMessage" and remove them from the string

If you don't care what the first 2 characters are and simply want to remove them from the string you can also do just this:

GET_BUFFER_STRING(acMessage,2)

You don't have to assign the first 2 characters to another variable if you don't want to.

MorgoZ · January 2013

Ok,

thanks to all of you!

this will be my choice for now

GET_BUFFER_STRING(acMessage,2)

removing first characters of a string

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