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Posted: **Sun May 08, 2016 6:28 am**

Is there a way to delete the string of text after a specific character?

For example my data is this:
(Words here) But I don't want the words here

I want my data to look like this:
Words here

I want to display just the words within the parenthesis. I deleted the first character, but no matter if I try using delete, replace, etc I can't get rid of the rest. Is this possible?

Thank you,
Cassidy

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2016 7:31 am**

Hi.

Easy. Look up the "offset" function. You would (Pseudo)

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put your Text into a variable
get the offset of the char you want to delimit that text
delete all the chars after the offset value

Another way (pseudo)

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set the item delimiter to the char of interest
delete item 2 of your text

Craig Newman

Posted: **Sun May 08, 2016 6:59 pm**

Thank you so much I got it to work with offset

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delete char 1 of test
put offset(")", test) into tOffset
delete char tOffset in test
delete char (tOffset + 1) to -1 of test

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