Dimitris Andrakakis wrote:

Hi there, I've got an 8-character string, say str='12345678'. With <dtml-var str> ofcourse I get 12345678. How can I display only part of it ? Say the first 4 chars (1234) or the next 2 (56) or the last two (78). In python I know this can be done with something like str[:4], str[4:6] and str[6:]. Any help ? (Hope I didn't sound too newbish !). --- Dimitris Andrakakis http://atlas.central.ntua.gr:8000/~mc94068

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Hi, Dimitris Dimitris Andrakakis wrote:

Hi there, I've got an 8-character string, say str='12345678'. With <dtml-var str> ofcourse I get 12345678. How can I display only part of it ? Say the first 4 chars (1234) or the next 2 (56) or the last two (78). In python I know this can be done with something like str[:4], str[4:6] and str[6:]. Any help ? (Hope I didn't sound too newbish !).

If you want to use pythonish expressions in a dtml-var tag, just quote them. e.g., <dtml-var expr="myStr[:4]"> will get you the first four characters of string myStr. The 'expr=' part is optional. -- Jim Washington Center for Assessment, Evaluation and Educational Programming Department of Teaching and Learning, Virginia Tech