ThinBASIC Core Language > BuiltIn Functions > String functions

Description

Return a copy of a string with characters or strings removed.

Syntax

s = REMOVE$(MainString, [ANY] MatchString)

Returns

String

Parameters

Name

Type

Optional

Meaning

MainString

String

The string expression from which to remove characters

MatchString

String

The string expression to remove all occurrences of. If MatchString is not present in MainString, all of MainString is returned intact.

If the ANY keyword is included, MatchString specifies a list of single characters to be searched for individually, a match on any one of which will cause that character to be removed from the result.

Remarks

Restrictions

See also

String Handling,

Examples

Thanks to Abraxas for the following script example

Dim sMainString As String VALUE "HELLO WORLD"

Dim sMatchString As String VALUE "LO"

Dim sStringExpression As String VALUE "ThinBasic "

Dim sNewString As String VALUE "R"

Dim sREP As String

Dim sREM As String

Dim sRPL As String

Dim Count As DWORD VALUE 10

Dim sMsg As String

sREP = REPEAT$(Count, sStringExpression)

sREM = REMOVE$(sMainString,sMatchString)

sRPL = REPLACE$(sMainString, Any sMatchString, With sNewString)

sMsg += "sMainString = " & sMainString & $CRLF

sMsg += "sMatchString = " & sMatchString & $CRLF

sMsg += "sStringExpression = " & sStringExpression & $CRLF

sMSG += "Count = " & Count & $CRLF & $CRLF

sMsg += "REPEAT$(Count, StringExpression) = " & sREP & $CRLF & $CRLF

sMsg += "REMOVE$(sMainString,sMatchString) = " & sREM & $CRLF & $CRLF

sMsg += "REPLACE$(sMainString, [ANY] sMatchString, [WITH] sNewString) = " & sRPL & $CRLF & $CRLF

MSGBOX 0, sMsg