Kalle Svensson kalle at gnupung.net
Wed Aug 16 12:09:41 EDT 2000

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On Wed, 16 Aug 2000 namking at my-deja.com wrote:

> find the first occurrence of the substring "body_" in a string (called
> URL) and strip it out,
> 
> e.g. if URL="http://www.xxx.com/body_welcome.html" I want to change it
> to "http://www.xxx.com/welcome.html".

URL = string.replace(URL, "body_", "", 1)

For this to work, you have to import the string module somewhere in your
program, perhaps at the top (there should be a number of import statements
there already, just add the module "string").

HTH,
  Kalle Svensson
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