stript

This function returns a text string corresponding to the input text string with the trailing garbage characters stripped out.

Syntax

stript(input, garbage)

Parameters

• input—Specifies the input text string.

• garbage—A text string defining what characters are deemed to be garbage characters.

Remarks

The input text string can be another field mapping grammar function.

Garbage characters are stripped starting from the end of the input string and continuing backwards through the string until a character not defined in the garbage string is found in the input string.