[Zope] string manipulation problem

[Tim Wilson]

On Fri, Oct 04, 2002 at 08:09:44PM -0700, Greg wrote:
> I simply need to remove the leading x amount of characters from a string.  
> I have a username that looks like this:
> 
> ADOMAIN\jsmith

I would do this with a Python Script.

return str(container.REQUEST.AUTHENTICATED_USER)[8:]

should do the trick.

Your DTML would be

<dtml-call expr="REQUEST.set('authU', nameOfPythonScript)">

-Tim

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