[ic] Filter question - Is this possible?

Jon Jensen jon at endpoint.com
Fri Nov 5 14:42:03 EST 2004


On Fri, 5 Nov 2004, Aftermarket Cellular wrote:

> Is there a way the filter out everything before a : For example 
> take "Some text: Some more text" and return "Some text". I need to do 
> this in the title field in one of my templates.

You can create your own filter in 
$VENDROOT/code/Filter/stripfromcolon.filter:

CodeDef before_colon Filter
CodeDef before_colon Routine <<EOR
sub {
	my ($val) = @_;
	$val =~ s/:.*//;
	return $val;
}
EOR

Then do [filter before_colon]Some text: Some more text[/filter].

Jon


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