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[jdduffy]

Hey Everyone,

I am new to the IS development world and have run across and issue that I can not find help on within the On-Line help for IS Professional v7. I have a string that is defined as "m:" and I need it to read just "m". How can I perform this task using IS scripting?

[Ioana]

Hello,
Try this way:

STRING szString, szNewString;
............................................
szString = "m:";
szNewString[0] = szString[0];
szNewString[1] = '\0';

[jdduffy]

Sorry, but I don't completely understand how I would code this. Again, please be patient with me since I am just learning.

To better explain my situation, the "m:" that I have is really a variable that I get from user input based on where they want the system to install too. So this variable could be different based on what drive letter the user chooses. (ie. M:, S:, T:)

Then what I am needing to do with the variable is crop the ":" off of it so that I can use it in a REGDBGETKEYVALUEEX function to read the registry on the server to get the following value:

[HKCU]\Network\drive letter\RemotePath (where the drive letter is the M:.)

[Xitch13]

I'd use StrSub() that gets a substring from a string.

You knbow whatever answer is returnbed you just want to grab the first byte so

szPathString - this is the path you get back from the user (D:, M:, E:, etc)
szDrive - this will hold the drive letter

just use this line

StrSub (szDrive, szPathString, 0, 1);


That will chop off the first byte of your string (starting at the 0 byte, and going for 1 byte), and store it in the variable szDrive

HTH

[jdduffy]

Great! I was able to resolve my issue using a combination of all your suggestions!