What about: Replace char 1 of mystring with ""
Bill William Prothero http://es.earthednet.org > On Feb 19, 2014, at 4:28 AM, Richmond <richmondmathew...@gmail.com> wrote: > >> On 19/02/14 14:09, John Dixon wrote: >> as in something like this... >> put char 2 to (the number of chars of fld 1) of fld 1 into fld 2 > > Oddly enough THIS works: > > put fld "INN" into $INN > delete char 1 of $INN > put $INN into fld "OWT" > > BUT, BUT, BIG UNCOMFORTABLE BUT, this: > > > put fld "INN" into $INN > put fld "URTEXT" into $URTEXT > repeat until $URTEXT is empty > if $INN contains the first char of $URTEXT then > put the first char of $URTEXT after $OUTTEXT > delete the first char of $URTEXT > else > delete the first char of $URTEXT > end if > end repeat > put $OUTTEXT into fld "fOUTTEXT" > > Maybe this is because one cannot use CONTAINS with a string variable, Dunno. > > Richmond. > > _______________________________________________ > use-livecode mailing list > use-livecode@lists.runrev.com > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription > preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode _______________________________________________ use-livecode mailing list use-livecode@lists.runrev.com Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-livecode
