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Re: substring function not handling hyphens in variables correctly


Wow, simpler is better!  This works perfectly.  Thank you very much, Tony.

Chas

Tony Graham wrote:

> 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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