[jawsscripts] Re: Character Index in String?

The problem with the chop functions is you need to know how many chars to 
chop.  This is great if you need to strip off carriage return and line feed 
chars.  My problem is determining the position of the character within the 
string.

Don Marang


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "GianniP46" <giannip46@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 11:07 PM
Subject: [jawsscripts] Re: Character Index in String?


> Wouldn't StringChopRight help you with that?
>  ----- Original Message ----- 
>  From: Donald Marang
>  To: jawsscripts@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
>  Sent: Wednesday, January 21, 2009 10:06 PM
>  Subject: [jawsscripts] Character Index in String?
>
>  Hopefully, this is an easy question for you guys.I want to remove all 
> characters in a string after the occurrence of a certain character, lets 
> say ":", and including that character.  I looked at the StringLeft and 
> StringContainsChars functions.  To have these two functions work together, 
> the StringContainsChars would need to return the index where the character 
> was found rather than just a Boolean True or false.  Are there more 
> appropriate functions or methods to accomplish this simple task.
>  For instance I want to transform the string
>  "Menu:only available in To DVD mode"
>  to
>  "Menu"
>
>  Don Marang
>
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