Delete part of text

[AlessioForconi]

OK, OK, let me put it this way, I think this is also what the dictionary means.
In a repeat for each loop like this:

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...
repeat for each line temp in tFiles
         ## do whatever you want to with temp:
         delete char -4 to -1 of  temp
         ## if temp was -> my_image.jpg 
         ## then it now is in fact -> my_image
end repeat
...

You can modify temp and do with it whatever you like, but the "container" (tFiles in this case) will NOT change in the end, means tFiles BEFORE the loop = tFiles AFTER the loop.

It is always difficult to explain something like this in your non-native language.

Thank you Klaus

[dunbarx]

@Klaus.

Oh, that is what you meant. Well, sure.

@ Jacque.

I thought so. But you can indeed (at least these days) fool around with the index midstream. I will test HC tomorrow. I have a feeling my little handler will not like it there.

Craig

[hpsh]

just wonder a bit about this, deleting chars -1 to -4 in a filename, where the end could be something like mytext.lz would make it to mytex.
would it not be better to set itemdel to "." transfer item 1 to a new string, and then replace the original with the new string?
would also fix a problem on Unix like system where the filename could be something like mytext.tar.gz

maybe just me that is tired, or something I don't get, would not be the first time

[AlessioForconi]

just wonder a bit about this, deleting chars -1 to -4 in a filename, where the end could be something like mytext.lz would make it to mytex.
would it not be better to set itemdel to "." transfer item 1 to a new string, and then replace the original with the new string?
would also fix a problem on Unix like system where the filename could be something like mytext.tar.gz

maybe just me that is tired, or something I don't get, would not be the first time

You are right. The fact is that in this case I know exactly what I want to eliminate. It is always and only the last four letters of the file, the point and the extension, so it is a code that must do only that and only in this case with those files.

[dunbarx]

@hpsh

Your thinking is correct; it is much more robust.

I have often chosen "the easy" way in a handler, thinking surely I did not need to deal with anything unexpected. Just as often, I had to go back and rework. Those unexpected things keep popping up.

Craig