Michael, Could you use remove_begining and remove_ending?
https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_remove_ending Barrie On Tue, Oct 22, 2019 at 10:31 AM Riehemann, Michael < michael.riehem...@coremedia.com> wrote: > Hello, > > I have a Feature Request for the string built-in "replace". > > This built-in has some additional flags, see > https://freemarker.apache.org/docs/ref_builtins_string.html#ref_builtin_string_flags > > Example: > We have string, in which we want to remove the first and last appearance > of a substring. > The first one is possible, but not the last one. Or do I miss something > here? > > Code: > <#assign testString="start some text start end some more lines end again" > /> > ${testString?replace("start", "", "f")} = some text start end some more > lines end again > > It would be nice to have a flag "l" to get the last one. > ${testString?replace("end", "", "l")} = start some text start end some > more lines again > > > What do you think? > > Thanks in advance, > > Michael Riehemann >
