stripping out text...

[TheBigDuck]

I have lines of text that look like this...

blahblahblah_T_alltheimportantstuff
blah_T_othertheimportantstuff

I want to strip out EVERYTHING prior to the T so it looks like this...

T_alltheimportantstuff
T_othertheimportantstuff

any suggestions?

[Janschenkel]

I'll give it a shot - assuming the data is in the variable 'tText':

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repeat for each line tLine in tText
  put offset("_T_", tLine) into tOffset
  if tOffset = 0 then
    put tLine after tNewText
  else
    put char tOffset + 1 to -1 of tLine after tNewText
  end if
  put return after tNewText
end repeat
delete char -1 of tNewText  -- strip the trailing return

HTH,

Jan Schenkel.

[SparkOut]

How regular are the lines of text, and the consistency of the delimiter?
If it's always of the format blahblah_T_keepme then you might be able to

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set the itemDelimiter to "_"
repeat for each line tLine in tText
  put item 2 to -1 of tLine & cr after tNewText
end repeat
delete char -1 of tNewText

That would rely on having no inconsistencies with underscore characters in the data lines.

[TheBigDuck]

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repeat for each line text_line in variableContainer

      put offset ("_T_", text_line) into off_set // find where the _T_ occurs
      delete char 1 to off_set of template_line  // blast everything from ONE to the offset
     
end repeat

I think this is a bit simpler

[Janschenkel]

The reason why I went the roundabout way of building up a new text variable, is that you shouldn't attempt to modify either the 'singe line' or 'entire text' variables while you're in a 'repeat for each' loop.
Also, the original poster wanted the underscore before the 'T_' to be removed as well, so you have to use the offset + 1.

Jan Schenkel.