Question

I would like to take the name of a topic and remove the last 5 characters from it and then use the text as part of a title in my topic.

Is this possible using any of the existing variables in twiki?

Thanks

Environment

-- GregGardinier - 01 Sep 2007

Answer

If you answer a question - or have a question you asked answered by someone - please remember to edit the page and set the status to answered. The status is in a drop-down list below the edit box.

Hmm I had done something by accident that I noticed. I had changed the name of the folder of the web to deleteme while I had edited a copy of it. I thought that it wouldn't show up on the webleftbar if I changed the name. I went to the wiki and notice that there was a new web added called delete me. You can try just editing the name in twiki/data and see what happens. Let me know if that did it.

-- StephenGarriques - 02 Sep 2007

I don't see how this is at all related to the issue. I want to dynamically take text and modify just the last 5 characters of a string. Regardless of its length. This would require using a some kind of variable.....

-- GregGardinier - 02 Sep 2007

oh sorry I mis-read your question

-- StephenGarriques - 02 Sep 2007

Yes, use a SpreadSheetPlugin formula. Cutting off last 5 chars of this topic: ModifyTextSt (look at raw text to see how this works.)

We use this in the Plugins web to point from the FooBarPluginDev topic back to the FooBarPlugin topic.

-- PeterThoeny - 03 Sep 2007