function zapAtEndOfLine tStr, tContainer
   put cr after tContainer
   replace tStr & cr with cr in tContainer
   return char 1 to -2 of tContainer
end zapAtEndOfLine

-- Peter

Peter M. Brigham
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On Aug 24, 2014, at 11:12 AM, JB wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> Thanks for the reply.
> 
> I am saying if I have “ABC” in one string and the other string
> has “KCFAJFCABC” then I want to delete the “ABC” from
> the end of the second string leaving “KCFAJFC”.
> 
> John Balgenorth
> 
> 
> On Aug 24, 2014, at 8:09 AM, dunb...@aol.com wrote:
> 
>> Hi.
>> 
>> 
>> Are you saying that if you have "ABCD" and somewhere else you have: "AXFRZC" 
>> that you want to delete the "C" from the first string?
>> 
>> 
>> Whatever you want, the chunking and text control within LC is more than 
>> adequate to do the job, and will be fun do execute as well. But is this what 
>> you meant?
>> 
>> 
>> Craig Newman
>> 
>> 
>> 
>> -----Original Message-----
>> From: JB <sund...@pacifier.com>
>> To: How to use LiveCode <use-livecode@lists.runrev.com>
>> Sent: Sun, Aug 24, 2014 10:16 am
>> Subject: delete end chars
>> 
>> 
>> If I have a certain amount of characters
>> and I want to check the end of another
>> line of characters to see if they are there
>> and if so then delete them what is the
>> fastest way to do delete the characters
>> at the end of the specified line?
>> 
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