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Re: st: RE: Removing trailing letter from string


From   Seb Buechte <[email protected]>
To   [email protected]
Subject   Re: st: RE: Removing trailing letter from string
Date   Fri, 25 Feb 2005 14:03:05 +0100

Well, if you do not know, wether all letters capitalized, this
modification may workout for you, it is basically adding the upper()
function:

replace postcode
       = substr(postcode,1,length(postcode)-1)
       if inrange(upper(substr(postcode,-1,1)), "A","Z")

The upper() function will not work for letters like "�" or "�" with a
ASCII code > 122.

seb f buechte



On Fri, 25 Feb 2005 12:50:33 -0000, Nick Cox <[email protected]> wrote:
> replace postcode
>         = substr(postcode,1,length(postcode)-1)
>         if inrange(substr(postcode,-1,1), "A","Z")
> 
> This assumes no rogue "a" through "z" in
> last position. Check for that
> 
> . assert !inrange(substr(postcode,-1,1), "a","z")
> 
> Nick
> [email protected]
> 
> Paul O'Brien (modulo non-ASCII mailjunk)
> 
> How do I remove the last letter from a string which ends with a letter but does nothing if the string ends in a digit? The string is either 3 or 4 characters long:
> 
> EC4A
> EC4P
> EC4Y
> DA15
> SE10
> SE2
> SE3
> W1A
> 
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- Seb F Buechte
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