easy: <dtml-let strDirPath="'/'.join(strDirPath.split('/')[:-1])"> You don't need to use _.string.legacy() functions. Just put your python expression inside the quotation marks. If you're new to python, don't let DTML be your place to learn python. Use a nice editor like IDLE. PS. Which scripting language did you work with before you came to Zope? On 9/5/05, Aaron Gillette <abgillette@allmail.net> wrote:

Hi All,

I'd like to take a string like:

/Computers/Data_Formats/Almost_Every_File_Format_in_the_World

and cut it down to:

/Computers/Data_Formats

using DTML.

I've tried to count to the last "/", and then truncate the string with ljust, like so:

<dtml-let strDirPathSize="_.string.rfind(strDirPath, '/')"> <dtml-let strDirPath="_.string.ljust(strDirPath, strDirPathSize)">

However, ljust/rjust won't truncate the string.

In the case above, I know that I want to truncate the string to 23 characters (/Computers/Data_Formats). Is there a way to accomplish this in DTML? If not, any suggestions?

Thanks in advance, Aaron _______________________________________________ Zope maillist - Zope@zope.org http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope ** No cross posts or HTML encoding! ** (Related lists - http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-announce http://mail.zope.org/mailman/listinfo/zope-dev )

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