a string operation help needed

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#1

Hello all.

I am getting a string returned from a TextField input and I need to cut/limit the returned string to only first 8 characters.

How can I do this ?
thank you!

[code] myText.text = tostring( getObj().text ) [code]
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#2

Try this:

[code]
local tempStr = tostring( getObj().text )

myText.text = string.sub(tempStr,1,8)
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#3

have you tried the string.sub( theText, 1, 8)

cheers,

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#4

thanks guys. exactly what I needed. [import]uid: 95911 topic_id: 16663 reply_id: 62288[/import]