Big-Data-HPC-Platform/docs/ECLStandardLibraryReference/SLR-Mods/RemoveSuffix.xml

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  <title>RemoveSuffix</title>

  <para><emphasis role="bold">STD.Str.RemoveSuffix<indexterm>
      <primary>STD.Str.RemoveSuffix</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>Str.RemoveSuffix</primary>
    </indexterm><indexterm>
      <primary>RemoveSuffix</primary>
    </indexterm>(</emphasis> <emphasis>source, suffix</emphasis> <emphasis
  role="bold">)</emphasis></para>

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          <entry><emphasis>source</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>The string to search.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry><emphasis>suffix</emphasis></entry>

          <entry>The ending string to remove.</entry>
        </row>

        <row>
          <entry>Return:<emphasis> </emphasis></entry>

          <entry>RemoveSuffix returns a string value.</entry>
        </row>
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  <para>The <emphasis role="bold">RemoveSuffix</emphasis> function returns 
  the <emphasis>source</emphasis> string with the ending text in the
  <emphasis>suffix</emphasis> parameter removed. If the <emphasis>source</emphasis> string 
  does not end with the <emphasis>suffix</emphasis>, then the <emphasis>source</emphasis> string 
  is returned unchanged.</para>

  <para>Example:</para>

  <programlisting format="linespecific">IMPORT STD;
STD.STr.RemoveSuffix('a word away','away');   //returns 'a word'
STD.STr.RemoveSuffix('a word a way','away');  //returns 'a word a way'
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