Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

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CGooley
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Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by CGooley » Wed Jun 26, 2019 3:36 pm

Hi,

Would like to assign the last three characters of a string variable to a new string variable. Any idea on how to do this?

Thanks!

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Re: Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by CGooley » Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:19 pm

Here is how I am currently trying to do this:

GetClipBoard>filename

Let>filenamelength={length(%filename%)}
Let>count=filenamelength-3

Let>at={Pos(" ",%filename%)}

Let>branch={copy(%filename%,count,%at%-1)}

message>branch


Branch should return the last 3 characters, but only does this if I specify manually in count.

As the code is now, I get an Unknown Identifier "COUNT" error

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Re: Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by JRL » Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:21 pm

You probably have previous programming experience which will be a benefit for logic but a deficit for syntax. You need to study posted scripts and get a feel for available commands and Macro Scheduler syntax which does not allow multiple functions on the same line.

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GetClipBoard>filename
Length>FileName,filenamelength
Let>filenamelength={%filenamelength%-2}
Midstr>filename,filenamelength,3,branch

mdl>branch

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Re: Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:35 pm

CGooley wrote:
Wed Jun 26, 2019 6:19 pm
Here is how I am currently trying to do this:

GetClipBoard>filename

Let>filenamelength={length(%filename%)}
Let>count=filenamelength-3

Let>at={Pos(" ",%filename%)}

Let>branch={copy(%filename%,count,%at%-1)}

message>branch


Branch should return the last 3 characters, but only does this if I specify manually in count.

As the code is now, I get an Unknown Identifier "COUNT" error
You've missed the % .. % around "count" as with all your other variables. That line should be:

Let>branch={copy(%filename%,%count%,%at%-1)}
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Re: Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by Marcus Tettmar » Mon Jul 01, 2019 2:37 pm

JRL wrote:
Thu Jun 27, 2019 3:21 pm
You probably have previous programming experience which will be a benefit for logic but a deficit for syntax. You need to study posted scripts and get a feel for available commands and Macro Scheduler syntax which does not allow multiple functions on the same line.
CGooley's syntax is correct - it is using complex expressions. Just missed % around the count variable. But your solution works too :-)
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Re: Copy last three characters of a variable to a new variable

Post by PepsiHog » Wed Jul 03, 2019 10:42 pm

@CGooley,

Yeah, you could do it that way. Some people like long lines of programming to accomplish a 1 liner.

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let>FileName=MyFilesNamelast3.txt
RegEx>.*(...)\..*,FileName,0,match,nom,1,$1,res

mdl>%res%
Boy! If the RegEx commission ever finds out how much I use RegEx, I am going to be in a lot of trouble!

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