StringDelete (Function)

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StringDelete (Function)

In french: ChaîneSupprime

Deletes:

all the occurrences of a substring within a string.
part of a string within another string. The part of the string to remove is identified by its position and length.

Example

MaChaîne = StringDelete("Antananarivo", "a")
// MaChaîne = Antnnrivo

MaChaîne = StringDelete("Antananarivo", 4, 1)
// MaChaîne = "Antnanarivo"

MaChaîne1 = StringDelete("Exemple de phrase à supprimer", 8, 10)
// MaChaîne1 = "Exemple à supprimer"

Syntax

Deleting all the occurrences of a substring in a string Hide the details

<Result> = StringDelete(<Initial string> , <Substring> [, <Options>])

<Result>: ANSI, Unicode or Binary string

String resulting from the deletion of the substrings.

<Initial string>: ANSI, Unicode or Binary string

Initial string to use. This character string is not modified.

<Substring>: Character string or array of Ansi, Unicode or Binary characters

Substring that will be deleted from <String>. This string can correspond to:
a character string.
an array of character strings. In this case, all the substrings are deleted from <String>.

<Options>: Optional Integer constant

Mode used to find the substring:
IgnoreCase Case and accent insensitive search (ignores uppercase/lowercase differences).
WholeWord Searches for a whole word (between punctuation characters or spaces).

By default, the search is case sensitive and it searches for all specified strings (even if they are part of a word).

Deleting part of a string identified by its position and length Hide the details

<Result> = StringDelete(<Initial string> , <Position> , <Length>)

<Result>: Character string

String resulting from the deletion of a part of the string.

<Initial string>: Character string

Initial string to be manipulated (maximum size: 2 GB). This character string is not modified.

<Position>: Integer

Position of the part of the string to delete.

<Length>: Integer

Length of the part of the string to delete (in number of characters).

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