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Quickie - removing first 5 characters of a string 1

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timtom

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I need to get rid of the first five characters of a querystring. Is there a simple way of doing this? Thanks for any help.
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strTest=request.querystring("value")
Response.Write mid(strTest,6,len(strTest)-5)
 
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Cheers Sarkman. Didn't think I'd fix that before I went home today :)
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Or you can use:-

Right(strTest, Len(strTest) - 5)

Codefish
 
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