VS:Delete

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Description

Procedure Delete removes a substring from the specified source string.

PROCEDURE Delete(
         VAR source   :DYNARRAY[] of CHAR;
         index        :INTEGER;
         count        :INTEGER);

def vs.Delete(source, index, count):
    return source

Parameters

source		DYNARRAY[] of CHAR		Source string.
index		INTEGER		Start position in text string.
count		INTEGER		Length of substring.

Remarks

Per Raymond Mullin, on the VS list, there is a bug in Delete that prevents it from getting the last character if the string is a dynarray of char. The following test script should leave T = , but it leaves T = '7'.

PROCEDURE DeleteTest;
VAR
T :DYNARRAY [] of CHAR;
BEGIN
T := '1234567';
Delete(T, 1, 7);
Message('T: ', T);
END;
RUN(DeleteTest);

Example

VectorScript

theStr:='A sample string';
Delete(theStr,3,7);
{deletes 'sample' from the string value}

Python

def DeleteTest():
	T = '1234567'
	T = vs.Delete(T, 1, 7)
	vs.Message('T: ', T)

DeleteTest()

Version

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