Remove a Character from String RSLogix 5000

Hey Guys,

I've got an array of strings in an L75 processor that take the shape of something like this:

MyString[01] = '012345.678'

I'm needing to pull the data minus the '.' character.

MyResult = '012345678'

It's always the 7th character in the string. And then keep the result as a string with any preceeding zeroes still included.
There's plenty of good examples in C, vb, java online of how to do this, but I haven't found any for RSLogix.

I was thinking a STOD then back to DTOS might work, but haven't tried that yet. Wanted to see if you guys had ever done anything similar.

Thanks,
Dustin

EDIT: Just bench-tested this, and see that STOD drops everything after the '.'
While a STOR tested on a '133993.001' yields '133993.0'.
Thought that might be a quick and easy way to do it, but looks like I'll have to stick to string manipulation...

RTFM, anyone?
Lol well the DELETE string instruction does exactly it says...and exactly what I needed.

bmacattack33 said:

RTFM, anyone?
Lol well the DELETE string instruction does exactly it says...and exactly what I needed.

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Glad you got it sorted, only took you less than 13 minutes... sorry i wasn't waiting for your post, i'd have pointed you in the right direction, although i'd have taken longer to post a reply

daba said:

Glad you got it sorted, only took you less than 13 minutes... sorry i wasn't waiting for your post, i'd have pointed you in the right direction, although i'd have taken longer to post a reply

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I'm glad I got it working too, but a bit embarrassed that I asked a question when the answer had been staring me right in the face!
After farting around with this for a good half-hour and then posting my question, I got the brilliant idea to actually check the instruction toolbar under ASCII string lol. I so rarely use the toolbar anymore...

If I hadn't posted, then I probably wouldn't have stumbled across the answer, and would probably still be working on an AOI that does what the DELETE instruction is designed to do.

I guess I'll take a few minutes of embarrassment over a half-day of reinventing the wheel!

I'm trying to use the delete instruction to delete the last character in a string. I want it to act like a backspace button on a keyboard since the string is being typed in on an HMI. I can't seem to get it to delete the last character. Here's a picture of what I'm trying so far
https://m.imgur.com/gallery/a5xiBij

Edit: I'm not sure why I can't attach pictures, but basically in the DELETE instruction I have 1 for the qty value and in the start value I have "string.DATA[string.LEN]"
I tried subtracting 1 from the string Len and using that as the pointer but it didn't work either.