How to remove first word from string

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Posted on by Akbarpasha

How to remove first word from string in AX 2012 run time,

First can be of any length, requirement is to remove or delete the first word of the string dynamically,

we have string function but haven't found any function that removes/deletes first word from string, (do not want to hard coded words, needs run time),

Please do needful,

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axk 925 on at

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You have to find index of first space (" ") - strFind(), and get substring from your string, starting from space index - subStr().

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Gautam 3,945 on at

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Hi Akbarpasha,

you can use something like this:-

strDel("qwerty",1,1)

output - werty

put required string instead of "qwerty".

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Gautam

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str st = 'A B C D';

str s;

container con;

con = str2con(st, ' ');

con = conDel(con, 1,1);

s = strReplace(con2Str(con), ',', ' ');

info(s);

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static void RemoveFirstWord(Args _args) { str testString = 'This is a test'; str newString; int firstSpace = strFind(testString, ' ', 1, strLen(testString)); if (firstSpace) { newString = subStr(testString, firstSpace + 1, strLen(testString)); } info (newString); }

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