removing a character from a variable

[Mr LiveCode man]

Hey guys,

Is it possible to remove a character from a variable? I Have a variable called _time . The data in it, is in the 2:45 format, and I need to remove the ':' so I can run some calculations and sorts on it and what not.

Any help would be much appreciated .


Lewis

[dunbarx]

Check out the filter command in the dictionary.

I can think of several sillier ways to do it, like:
on mouseup
set the itemdel to ":"
put item 1 of yourData & item 2 of yourData into yourData
end mouseup

Craig Newman

[jacque]

Two more ways:

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replace colon with empty in _time

delete char offset(colon,_time) of _time

[Mr LiveCode man]

Thanks a lot folks!

Lewis