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StringDrop

Status: Stable

documented, exercised by the test suite and/or worked examples, with no known limitations recorded.

Description

StringDrop["string", n]

Gives "string" with its first n characters dropped.

StringDrop["string", -n]

Gives "string" with its last n characters dropped.

StringDrop["string", {n}]

Gives "string" with its nth character dropped.

StringDrop["string", {m, n}]

Gives "string" with characters m through n dropped.

StringDrop["string", {m, n, s}]

Drops characters m through n in steps of s.

StringDrop["string", UpTo[n]]

Drops n characters, or as many as are available.

StringDrop[{s1, s2, ...}, spec]

Gives the list of results for each of the si. Negative indices count from the end.

Examples (9)

Every input below was run against the current Mathilda build and its output recorded.

Basic examples (9)

In[1]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", 4]
Out[1]= "efghijklm"

In[2]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", -4]
Out[2]= "abcdefghi"

In[3]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", {5, 10}]
Out[3]= "abcdklm"

In[4]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", {3}]
Out[4]= "abdefghijklm"

In[5]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", {1, -1, 2}]
Out[5]= "bdfhjl"

In[6]:= StringDrop[{"abcdef", "xyzw", "stuv"}, -2]
Out[6]= {"abcd", "xy", "st"}

In[7]:= StringDrop["abc", UpTo[4]]
Out[7]= ""

In[8]:= StringDrop["abcdefghijklm", {5, -4}]
Out[8]= "abcdklm"

In[9]:= StringDrop[] StringDrop::argrx: StringDrop called with 0 arguments; 2 arguments are expected.

Implementation notes

Attributes: Protected.

References

See also: StringTake