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Non-profit whipping boy - 20 Apr 2006 02:20 GMT

Hi. Can anyone share with me a switch or method to trim a character out of a
mergefield from the output if it exists in the source. To illustrate. I
have a sentence "...thanks to the attendees {MERGEFIELD
attendees_name_combined}."

Unfortunately if attendees_name_combined is "Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jr.", the
output becomes "...thanks to the attendees Mr. and Mrs. Smith, Jr.."

I want to trim the extra period (.) from the output if it exists in this
instance (or suppress the final period. I was hoping for a switch or an if
.. then statement just for the final period, but so far I have not been able
to figure out a solution.

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macropod - 20 Apr 2006 11:58 GMT

Hi,

Try an IF test on the MERGEFIELD, coded as:
{IF{MERGEFIELD attendees_name_combined}= "*." "{MERGEFIELD
attendees_name_combined}" "{MERGEFIELD attendees_name_combined}."}
and deleting the "." from your document's text.

Cheers

> Hi. Can anyone share with me a switch or method to trim a character out of a
> mergefield from the output if it exists in the source. To illustrate. I
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> .. then statement just for the final period, but so far I have not been able
> to figure out a solution.

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Non-profit whipping boy - 21 Apr 2006 22:43 GMT

Perfect! Thank you!

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