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Re: JTextfield substring

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From: Steve Horsley
Date: Tue, 22 Jun 1999 00:00
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Try something like this (I assume you want the last 10 chars):

int end = textfield.getText().length();
int start = end - 10;
if(start < 0)
    start = 0;
String sub = textfield.getText().substring(start, end);

Steve
//-----------------------
Yasser wrote:
> 
> Wanted to know if there is a function that can return to me part of a
> string entered in a JTextfield. substring(start pos,end pos) reads a
> string from the starting position to the ending position ... in my case
> wanted to read the string from its ending position to a specified number
> of characters..
> 
> yasser
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