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get substring before a character from a string?

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Posted on by Long.Thai 130

For example, if I have

string test = 'Accounts receivable/Common/Customers/Customers past due';

and I want to extract everything before the firsts '/", and return Accounts receivable. What would be the way to go about doing this?

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    Long.Thai 130 on at

    I have found the way to do it.

    string test = 'Accounts receivable/Common/Customers/Customers past due';

    test = subStr(test, 1, strFind(test, '/', 1, strLen(test)));

    test = strRem(test, '/');

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    Vilmos Kintera Profile Picture
    Vilmos Kintera 46,149 on at

    You should be using strSplit function to separate strings by a specific character.

    Here you go:

        str             testStr     = @'Accounts receivable/Common/Customers/Customers past due';
    List            elements    = strSplit(testStr, @'/');
    ListEnumerator  listEnum    = elements.getEnumerator();
    
    listEnum.moveNext();
    
    info(listEnum.current());

    There is another solution, which requires less coding, with containerization of your string by a separator character, and pulling the first element:

        info(conPeek(str2con(testStr, @'/'), 1));


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