To display a subsection of text, place the text inside a [GetChars] context.
Example (normally you would put the following text into a .tpl file on your server and use a web browser to link to it):
The example above returns "Edwin," which is the sequence of letters starting at the 14th position and extending to the 18th position. Extracting sub-portions of text is useful when you need to get text from within files.
The example above returns "na," which is the sequence of letters starting at the 1st position from the end and extending to the 2nd position from the end.
The following parameters are optional to the [GetChars] context:
| Parameter | Description |
|---|---|
| start |
Index placement of the first character to return. |
| end |
(Optional) The index placement of the last character to return. If no end is specified, all of the text up to the end of the string is returned. |
| from |
(Optional) Set to "end" to get characters from the ending of the string instead of the beginning. |
Trim |
(Optional) To remove leading and trailing white space in a given text string. |
To display a subsection of some text, put the text inside a [getchars] context.
Most often, the contents of the [getchars] context will be the value of an input
field or database field that WebDNA will replace.
Example 1:
[getchars start=1&end=2][field1][/getchars]
Example 2:
[GetChars start=14&end=18]Hello there, Edwina[/GetChars]
Example 2 returns “Edwin”, which is the sequence of letters starting
at the 14th position and extending to the 18th position. Extracting sub-portions
of text is useful when you need to get text from files.
Example 3:
[GetChars start=1&end=2&from=end]Hello there, Edwina[/GetChars]
Example 3 returns “na”, which is the sequence of letters starting
at the 1st position from the end and extending to the 2nd position from the
end.
You can use the new 'TRIM=Right/Left/Both' parameter for the
[GetChars] context to remove leading and trailing white space in a given text
string.
Example WebDNA:
[text]test_string=
This is a test.
[/text]
Example input string: "[test_string]"Remove leading white space:
>[getchars start=1&end=&trim=left][test_string][/getchars]<Remove trailing white space:
>[getchars start=1&end=&trim=right][test_string][/getchars]<Remove leading and trailing white space:
>[getchars start=1&end=&trim=both][test_string][/getchars]<Remove leading and trailing white space, and retrieve characters in the 1-4 positions:
>[getchars start=1&end=4&trim=both][test_string][/getchars]<Remove leading and trailing white space, and retrieve characters in the 1-5 positions, from the end:
>[getchars start=1&end=5&trim=both&from=end][test_string][/getchars]<
Results...
Example input string: "
This is a test.
"
Remove leading white space:
>This is a test.
<
Remove trailing white space:
>
This is a test.<
Remove leading and trailing white space:
>This is a test.<
Remove leading and trailing white space, and retrieve characters in the 1-4 positions:
>This<Remove leading and trailing white space, and retrieve characters in the 1-5 positions, from the end:
>test.<
Note that you still need to supply the 'start' and 'end' parameters.