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Newbie Joined: 14 Dec 2005 Posts: 2

Greetings,

Let @name1 variable be a string or word like "large dog."

Is there a way to tell ZMud to only return X number of characters of the variable?

For example, instead of kill @name1 returning "kill 'large dog'", I want it to return "kill 'larg'" (first 4 characters) of the variable.

Thanks

Apprentice Joined: 29 Jul 2002 Posts: 105

From the help file

left

Syntax: %left(s,n)

return the leftmost n characters of the string s
Examples:
#SHOW %left(0815,2)
displays: 08

#SHOW %left("abc~~def",4)

displays

abc~

memory aid:
%left(anystring,@anynumber) plus %right(anystring,@anynumber) is 'anystring'

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Therefore
kill %left(@name1, 4)
would be what you want