Removing number of characters from end of string

Hi all....
Dooza very kindly helped me with trimming a string in an
earlier post, but
now i want to remove the last four characters from a string.
I really should know how to do this and will have to do some
bedtime reading
:-|
But, for now, could someone help!
Thanks
Andy

Ah Dooza - Thank You.
To the rescue again :-D
You're helping me to see the logic...
Thanks Again
Andy
"Dooza" <[email protected]> wrote in message
news:gbafel$ra3$[email protected]..
> Andy wrote:
>> Hi all....
>> Dooza very kindly helped me with trimming a string
in an earlier post,
>> but now i want to remove the last four characters
from a string.
>> I really should know how to do this and will have to
do some bedtime
>> reading :-|
>>
>> But, for now, could someone help!
>
> Hi Andy,
> Try something like this:
> <%
> myStr = "this is my really long string"
> Response.Write(LEFT(myStr,LEN(myStr) -4))
> %>
>
> Dooza

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