Trim Characters Functionality

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Jake

• January 03, 2019 11:35

Hi,

I would like to ask what is the best way to trim characters in IB? For example, with string "1234-456789", I only want to look the first 4 characters, how would I trim that out? I saw <stringModify>, but I don't see it has something like this?

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  michiel

  • January 08, 2019 15:33

  You could use <setInstallerVariableFromRegex> to trim the first four characters:

   <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
     <name>trimmed</name>
     <text>1234-56789</text> 
     <pattern>"^(....).*</pattern>
     <substitution\1<substitution/>
   </setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
  
  

   

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  Jake

  • January 09, 2019 13:11

  Thanks, I was able to get it using something like this this: 

  <setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>
      <name>value1</name>
      <pattern>^(.*?)-(.*?)$</pattern>
      <substitution>\1</substitution>
      <text>${value}</text>
    </setInstallerVariableFromRegEx>

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  BitRock support

  • January 11, 2019 16:53

  It's great to hear you found a solution.

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