Truncating Strings

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Truncating Strings

Post by Guest » Tue Jul 30, 2002 2:44 am

What is the command to resize a string?  Example:

I want to resize "electric guitar" to just "electric"

(AKA removing the last eight characters)

Are there any commands to do this?

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Re: Truncating Strings

Post by madmartin55 » Tue Jul 30, 2002 12:01 pm

Try:

a$=LEFT$(a$, 8 )

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Re: Truncating Strings

Post by Guest » Thu Aug 29, 2002 12:52 am

If you want to seperate it based on spaces try:

L=LEN(A$)
FOR A=1 TO L
B$=MID$(L,A$,1)
IF B$=" " THEN GOTO 10
NEXT

10 C$=LEFT$(A$,L)

That's from memory, so you probably should check the help file for MID$ cuz I don't remember which (L A$ or 1) goes where, but L is the position, A$ is the string, and 1 is the length.

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