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Newbie Joined: 30 Mar 2005 Posts: 1

Hi,

For a script on processing items I was looking into writing a custom function that strips all spaces and special ascii characters from a given string. However, if you supply a string to the custom function with characters like " , - in them, the function doesn't work. Below is an example of what I am trying to do... I've already tried including them in extra brackets, or using %string() to force parsing a string etc...

#FU strip %subchar(%lower(%1), " ,.-", "")

and

item="testing The ~" this function, on - stripping?"

#EVAL @strip( @item ) gives:

testing the " this function, on - stripping?), "

While it _should_ produce:

testingthethisfunctiononstripping?

Also, using the " character in subchar seems to work odd..

Any ideas on this, or other solutions that will do the trick?

Thanx!

Novice Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 31

I was playing around with it and got lucky.
You forgot a " in your list1 also

#CLASS {testdoc}
#ALIAS stripping {#EVAL @strip(item)}
#VAR strip {%subchar( %lower( @%-1), ",".-", "")}
#VAR item {testing The " this function, on - stripping?}
#CLASS 0

Novice Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 31

Or like this and if you type: strip item
it will strip the @item variable

#CLASS {testdoc}
#ALIAS strip {#EVAL @strip(%-1)}
#VAR strip {%subchar( %lower( @%-1), ",".-", "")}
#VAR item {testing The " this function, on - stripping?}
#CLASS 0

Novice Joined: 27 Mar 2005 Posts: 31

update
change you subchar line to
%subchar( %lower( @%-1), ",".~-", "")