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Old 05-19-2003
danhodges99
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Remove Last Character of Line

Hi,

I need to put the single line contents of a file into a variable, but remove the last character, for example the file would have this sort of contents:

2;4;3;10;67;54;96;

And I want the variable to be:

2;4;3;10;67;54;96 (notice the last ";" has gone).

Unfortunately I can't just do a cut of characters 1-x as the string will fluctuate in length!

Thanks.