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How to remove the rest of a string after a certain character?

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Posted on by junior AX 1,552

Hi.

so let's say i have the following strings

str firstString = "123-345"

str secondString = xx-w

i want to detect the dash then  remove the dash and everything after the dash

so the output should be like this

 firstString = "123"

secondString = "xx"

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    Gunjan Bhattachayya Profile Picture
    Gunjan Bhattachayya 35,421 on at
    RE: How to remove the rest of a string after a certain character?

    Hi junior AX,

    You can use string functions - strFind and SubStr. You can check here for more examples.

    str firstString = '123-345;
int pos;
str newString;

pos         = strFind(firstString, "-", 1, strLen(firstString));
newString   = subStr(firstString, 1, pos-1);

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    WillWU Profile Picture
    WillWU 22,361 on at
    RE: How to remove the rest of a string after a certain character?

    Hi junior AX,

    You could also use strDel method.

    Str example = 'ABC-111';
    info(strDel(example, strFind(example, "-", 1, strLen(example)), strLen(example)-strFind(example, "-", 1, strLen(example)) 1));

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