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BrightNail
01-28-2003, 11:16 PM
whats the quickest most effective way, that is crossbrowser & platform compatible, to strip the first 10 characters from a string....

ala..

fuejUjelm7KEEPTHISSTUFF

I want..
KEEPTHISSTUFF


?

ca_redwards
01-28-2003, 11:22 PM
Originally posted by BrightNail
whats the quickest most effective way, that is crossbrowser & platform compatible, to strip the first 10 characters from a string....

ala..

fuejUjelm7KEEPTHISSTUFF

I want..
KEEPTHISSTUFF


?
_old="fuejUjelm7KEEPTHISSTUFF";
_new=_old.slice(9);

whammy
01-28-2003, 11:52 PM
Funny, I just used the slice method again today.

BrightNail
01-29-2003, 12:01 AM
hahahahah,
excellent!...worked like a charm. Funny, I could of just looked for the slice property....geeez. I must be getting lazy.

thanks again..--> appreciate it.

BrightNail

whammy
01-29-2003, 12:04 AM
That's when having O'Reilly's "definitive guide" really comes in handy. ;)

ca_redwards
01-29-2003, 12:14 AM
Originally posted by whammy
That's when having O'Reilly's "definitive guide" really comes in handy. ;)

I have several O'Reilly books: Dynamic HTML, JavaScript Application Cookbook and Web Design in a nutshell; plus several other O'Reilly titles about Java.