>>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
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> GETWORDNUM(var, 1, "@")

I was wondering why this thread fell into the typical behavior of going for at(), atc() and manual string chopping, when we have all the functions like justext(), justfname(), getwordnum(), strextract(), alines() - all the better knives for this kind of slicing.

I guess it's because these functions are too new and people haven't found the time to get used to them. And some of them have been in that limbo called foxtools.dll (aka fpath in FPD) until V6, and the news of them becoming full-fledged members of the Fox proper haven't still reached the remoter villages...