Creates a new string from the right-most x characters of an existing string.
Action ID: 33
Action Category: Strings
The variable that the result will be stored in. The result will be a new string made up of characters copied from the source string.
The string to copy the characters from.
The number of characters to copy.
None
In this example, we will strip the file extension from a file and store it in a custom variable named %Extension%. We can assume that the extension is 3 characters long in this case because the filename was returned by one of our PHP pages after a Submit to Web action, and our PHP script ensures that the return value follows the DOS 8.3 naming format.
Note: In this example we use a custom variable named %URLFile% to represent a filename returned by one of our PHP pages. This is not a built-in variable and would need to have been assigned a value earlier in the setup.
Store result in variable: %Extension%
Source string: %URLFile%
Number of characters: 3
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