[Zope] newbie question - handling strings

[Jim Sanford]

<dtml-var expr="some_string[3:9]">

----- Original Message ----- 
From: Andres Corrada <andres@corrada.com>
To: Dimitris Andrakakis <dandraka_info@yahoo.com>
Cc: <zope@zope.org>
Sent: Sunday, March 26, 2000 9:34 PM
Subject: Re: [Zope] newbie question - handling strings


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

<dtml-var "str[:4]"> or whatever else you want should work.

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