Trim characters on the string

[Praveen_Vs (praveen)]

I have a string variables which consists of 22 or 23 alpha numeric characters. I want to shortern this to 16 characters. Need to remove the characters within the forward slashes also need to remove the slashes too. How to do this ??
Attached some examples
Variable 1: ABCD123456/AB/C/123456
Variable 3: ZXYZ987653/MK/YD/098123
Variable 4: QWER456789/VS/P/[889933

[ppr (Peter Preuss)]

regex replace can help:

System.Text.RegularExpressions.Regex.Replace(YourStringVar,"\/.*\/","")

[CheatSheet] - System.Text.RegularExpressions | RegEx

This CheatSheet introduces the basic use of regex functions. With further examples also special cases are presented. Introduction From the namespace System.Text.RegularExpressions following methods are offered: Regex.Match Regex.Matches Regex.isMatch Regex.Replace Regex.Split A simple usage for example would look like this: [grafik] Recommendation: add System.Text.RegularExpressions to the imports: [grafik] it allows to use the shortened statement, as the namespace part can be ommited…

[Gokul_Jayakumar (Gokul Jai)]

Hello @Praveen_Vs , Try Regex replace method

System.Text.RegularExpression.regex.Replace(Yourstring,"\/.*\/.*\/\W|\/.*\/.*\/","").ToString.Trim

[Sanjit_Pal]

Hey @Praveen_Vs

Use the below method

startIndex = str.IndexOf("/")
EndIndex = str.LastIndexOf("/")
str = str.Substring(0, startIndex)+str.Substring(EndIndex+1)

Thanks,
Sanjit