Crystal 2011

[jchewsmith]

How do I trim off the first four letters of a result from a custom function

My function looks for specific text in a log and I want to only print the log less the first word.

Example: result - Enter xxxx
I want result to be xxxx

 

[SkipVought]

Hi,

Your request does not coincide with your specific example!

From your example, it is not "the first four letters" of Enter xxxx, rather the first SIX characters!!!???

Does the string ALWAYS begin with the characters "Enter "?

 

[jchewsmith]

Sorry, Yes it alwasy begings with Enter and I do not want Enter to display.

 

[BettyJ]

replace(yourstring,"Enter ","");

 

[hilfy]

The problem with that, BettyJ, is that it will remove ALL instances of the word Enter, not just the first one. A better way would be this:

Mid({string field}, 7)

This will trim the first 6 characters off of the front of the string.

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[BettyJ]

hilfy is right.
Thank you, hilfy.