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Wanderer Joined: 02 Dec 2001 Posts: 80 Location: Canada

#var loot %replace( "%1", ",", "|")

works great for commas, but how do I build it if I want to remove all punctuation and other certain words... for example: , ! . AND and.

also if I just want the right most word in each string item, is this possible as well?

MASTER Joined: 28 Nov 2000 Posts: 4817 Location: USA

You can repeat the %replace as often as desired, changing any characters you don't want into characters which you do want. Among the things you can change to is a null string.
#VAR loot {%replace( "%1", ",", "|")}
#VAR loot {%replace({@loot}, "!", "")}
#VAR loot {%replace({@loot}, " and ", " ")}

SubAdmin Joined: 18 Nov 2001 Posts: 5182

Also you might want to use %subchar. For example:
#VAR loot {%subchar("%1", "!.?:()[]<>", "")

This method is character based so it doesn't work for a phrase/word like "and", but can neatly eliminate all punctuation.

Wanderer Joined: 12 Nov 2003 Posts: 70 Location: USA

> also if I just want the right most word in each string item, is this possible as well?

One way to do so would be this, though there are likely more elegant ways out there:
#LOOP %numitems( @loot) {#VAR loot %replaceitem( %word( %item( @loot, %i), %numwords( %item( @loot, %i))), %i, @loot)}

Wanderer Joined: 02 Dec 2001 Posts: 80 Location: Canada

Thank you.