[xquery-talk] solution of string manipulation message

[Michael Kay]

A better solution, that avoids calling tokenize twice, would be

let $str := "book/title/author"
let $toks := tokenize($str, '/')
let $p := subsequence($toks, 1, count($toks)-1)
return string-join($p, '/')

Michael Kay
http://www.saxonica.com/

> -----Original Message-----
> From: talk-bounces at xquery.com 
> [mailto:talk-bounces at xquery.com] On Behalf Of fatma helmy
> Sent: 05 February 2006 23:27
> To: talk at xquery.com
> Subject: [xquery-talk] solution of string manipulation message
> 
> dear all
> i did it
> 
> let $str := "book/title/author" 
> let
> $p:=string-join(subsequence(tokenize("book/title/author",
> "/"), 1, count(tokenize($str, "/")) - 
> 1), "/") return $p
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
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