trim string

[Christopher Brandsdal]

How do i cut the last 4 characters in a string?
I know how to cut the 4 first, but i need to cut the last!
I have a image name like testimage.gif and I want to cut away .gif



Thanks
Christopher

 

[Ray at]

If you just want to cut away the last four, use:

TheString = Left(TheString, Len(TheString) - 4)

If you want to get rid of the file extension, here is one of many ways:

TheString = Left(TheString, InStrRev(TheString, ".") - 1)

Ray at work

 

[Evertjan.]

Christopher Brandsdal wrote on 31 jul 2003 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

How do i cut the last 4 characters in a string?
I know how to cut the 4 first, but i need to cut the last!
I have a image name like testimage.gif and I want to cut away .gif

vbscript:

s = left(s,len(s)-4)

jscript:

s = s.substring(0,s.length-4)

not tested

 

[Christopher Brandsdal]

Thank's to both of you!

Christopher Brandsdal wrote on 31 jul 2003 in
microsoft.public.inetserver.asp.general:

vbscript:

s = left(s,len(s)-4)

jscript:

s = s.substring(0,s.length-4)

not tested

 

[dlbjr]

Why not Right(strData,4)?

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[Ray at]

He wanted to remove the file extension, not remove the filename.

Ray at work

 

[Chris Hohmann]

Why not Right(strData,4)?

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OP wants everything BUT the last four (4) characters.

 

[Dave Anderson]

How do i cut the last 4 characters in a string?
I know how to cut the 4 first, but i need to cut
the last! I have a image name like testimage.gif
and I want to cut away .gif

Easy way:
filename.replace(/\.[^.]*?$/,"")

Silly way:
filename.split("").reverse().slice(4).reverse().join("")

Both JScript. The regular expression will properly handle extensions of
variable length (jpg or jpeg), and will not totally hose such filenames as
"My.oddly.named.filename.gif".



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