Alternate TRIM need

123-4567 ** See, it has quotes around it.. I don't want the quotes. *** This is what I am looking for..

123-4567 ** See, the quotes are gone. Where newTrim by itself will trim spaces.. And with the "/delimiter" attribute.. it will take a character the would be the field delimiter. John.

PhoneString: {"123-4567"} print trim/with phonestring {"} 123-4567 trim/with will remove *all* "s not just the first and last: PhoneString: {"1"2"3"-4"567"} print trim/with phonestring {"} 123-4567 Good enough? Sunanda

trim has a /with refinement which should do specifically what you want...

123-4567 PS: try the help function in the console... it gives many questions :-) ex:

USAGE: TRIM series /head /tail /auto /lines /all /with str DESCRIPTION: Removes whitespace from a string. Default removes from head and tail. TRIM is an action value. ARGUMENTS: series -- (Type: series port) REFINEMENTS: /head -- Removes only from the head. /tail -- Removes only from the tail. /auto -- Auto indents lines relative to first line. /lines -- Removes all line breaks and extra spaces. /all -- Removes all whitespace. /with str -- Same as /all, but removes characters in 'str'. (Type: char string) HTH! -MAx

If not, then perhaps something like this... trim-delims: func [str [string!] delims[char! string!]][ if not empty? str [ delims: join delims/1 last delims if delims/2 = last str [remove back tail str] if (to-string delims/1) = copy/part str 1 [remove str] ] str ] It accepts one character for when the start and end deliminaters are the same and two for when they're different. in use...

== ""

== "a"

== "a"

== "{a}"

== "a"

== "abc" then again, perhaps LOAD does all you need? ...

== "123-4567" Hmmm. :-) -- Carl Read