Opening a file with double click

[DavidN]

That's "Right$()" - have a look for it in the Help, as I think it can explain it less confusingly than I can.

[Sarah]

Extract right sub-string extracts a sub-string from the given string, starting on the right. Example, RIGHT$("Hello", 3) will return "llo".

Help --> Contents --> The Objects --> Inventory --> Special Objects --> The Special Object --> Expressions.

I wish there was a way of bookmarking this page, as it is such essential reading.

[dingdong]

Oh right! Sorry I read it wrong... Ok, I understand what your doing, but surely the directory or command would vary in length. So how do you work it out? Would someone be able to put an example together please? Thanks if anyone can

[LazyCoder]

Why does the directory have to have quotes around it?

[Joshtek]

Why does the directory have to have quotes around it?

Possibly to distinguish between the location and the commandline parameters and to allow spaces in the commandline.

[Sarah]

Ok, I understand what your doing, but surely the directory or command would vary in length. So how do you work it out?

The Right$ function extracts stuff from the righthand end of the string - ie the END [smile] It does the hard work of calculating how long the string is, before giving you however many characters you've asked for.

[Joshtek]

but surely the directory or command would vary in length. So how do you work it out?

You can also use len() to figure out the length of a string.

Example: Right$(string$( "String" ), Len(string$( "String" ))-1)

That would get all except the first character, so "ABCDEFG" would end up being "BCDEFG".