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Novice Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 38

I want to get rid of the beginning A or AN or THE from a string. I can do this with 3 differant replace statements but I would like to do it in one. What would you do?

This is what I was thinking would work;
#echo %replace("a test",a|an|the, "")
returns: a test

Thank you
Tanuki

Novice Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 38

#echo %subregex("the Rat a High", "\b(?i)(?:a|the|of)\b","")
I found this and it will work but I would still like to know what I'm doing wrong above.

Posted: Mon Nov 05, 2012 4:14 am

i would try to exclude the items from ever appearing in my string my using an anonymous variable in the trigger pattern

{a |an |the |} (*)

but for your questions i would do somthing like...

$temp=%replace("a test", " ", "|")
#IF (%ismember(%item($temp, 1), {a|an|the})) {#CALL %pop($temp)}
#SAY %replace($temp, "|", " ")

%replace expects everything it is passed to be a string, so the announymous variable array was an invalid datat type. you could use a #forall loop on a|an|the, but that would give you three prinouts

Novice Joined: 06 Nov 2008 Posts: 38

Thank you for the reply. In my current case i'm getting the variable via GMCP or I would take your first suggestion. But for now I will add that bit of code to my notes. I'm sure it will come in very handy someday and %pop comes in very handy right now Very Happy

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Thank You,
Tanuki

Sorcerer Joined: 15 Apr 2011 Posts: 809

%replace can only be used for simple replacements, one string with another. Your subregex should work fine, but if you wanted to do it with replace without nesting 3 of them, you could also use a loop like this: