Text message forward but remove last 20 characters

[Bexier]

I am using the template SMSCODE. It starts with everything I need except I can't figure out how to write the regex to strip the message of the last 20 characters.

Is this possible?

 

[tanutanu]

If 20 is the fixed legth, Text manipulation -> Substrings action is easier.
Check whole the string length and put it in an int variable first, then omit the last 20 characters.

 

[Bexier]

Thanks for the quick reply!!

I'm sorry but I can't seem to get it to work.

1. I get a text from 12345 (auto text)

2. Set Int var (this is where I'm having trouble)

3. Text manipulation: substring

4. Save to new var

5. Send sms (new var)

Thanks

 

[tanutanu]

Thanks for the quick reply!!

I'm sorry but I can't seem to get it to work.

1. I get a text from 12345 (auto text)

2. Set Int var (this is where I'm having trouble)

3. Text manipulation: substring

4. Save to new var

5. Send sms (new var)

Thanks

Just do it

 

[Dm114]

Thanks for the quick reply!!

I'm sorry but I can't seem to get it to work.

1. I get a text from 12345 (auto text)

2. Set Int var (this is where I'm having trouble)

3. Text manipulation: substring

4. Save to new var

5. Send sms (new var)

Thanks

Text manipulation only works on string variables. If the value comes from an integer or decimal variable, set it in a string variable first. Then, if needed, you could store the extracted numerical string back to an integer variable using Magic text [strval=your_string_variable]

 

[Bexier]

Thanks everyone. I got it to work. It was a matter of getting which variables I needed and understanding where to apply them.

 

[Dm114]

Thanks everyone. I got it to work. It was a matter of getting which variables I needed and understanding where to apply them.

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If you don't need string variable content anymore you even can "spare" newstring local variable and use initial string variable as result of the text manipulation.