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Re: substring function not handling hyphens in variables correctly
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- Subject: Re: [xsl] substring function not handling hyphens in variables correctly
- From: Tony Graham <Tony dot Graham at ireland dot sun dot com>
- Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2001 17:43:48 +0100
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Chas Mick wrote at 13 Sep 2001 11:36:46 -0400:
> I have just upgraded from Xalan 1.0.0 to Xalan
> 1.3. The following snippets no longer function
> correctly:
>
> <xsl:value-of
> select="concat(substring($user,1,3),substring($user,5,6),substring($user,8,11))"/>
Since you're really only worried about '-' characters, You could just
use:
<xsl:value-of select="translate($user, '-', '')"/>
Regards,
Tony Graham
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