String Substring

A bit of a minor one: My most comomon use of this action is to tokenize - say, getting the first word before a space. But there’s no real support for matching from the start of the string until a specified character. As a workaround, you end up searching for “[%string%” then matching between “[” and " ".

Would it be possible to have an explicit option for matching the start of the string? Perhaps something like an option, “Start String” OR “From first character”.

Actually, what you really need is to be able to combine the two options “Specify position” and “Specify string”: Take the characters between character 0 and the first space.

(Alternatively a string tokenising action would be the dog’s bollocks).

Steve


Yeah, a strtok action would be good :slight_smile:

[put it on the wish list]

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