>I am trying to extract the characters BEFORE the @ in an email - is there a single line or simple two step code that can do this?
>example
>name_of_sender@thisemail.com
>
>I would like only the "name_of_sender"
>
>I know the long way round - searching for the '@' by counting characters in a for - endfor loop
>perhaps a len() that counts to the @ - something along those lines.
>
>thanks
>k

GETWORDNUM(var, 1, "@")