Using "Substitute" to remove a string with wildcards?

[Shiva]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Google News RSS reader skin. Every item is of the form "[Headline] - [Source]". I'd like to remove the " - [Source]" from the displayed text. Is there any way to do this using Substitute? Right now, I'm using a crude workaround (Substitute=" - CNN":""," - BBC News":"", etc...). If it's not possible with Substitute, is there another way? Using RegExp perhaps?

Thanks!

[jsmorley]

Hi everyone,

I'm working on a Google News RSS reader skin. Every item is of the form "[Headline] - [Source]". I'd like to remove the " - [Source]" from the displayed text. Is there any way to do this using Substitute? Right now, I'm using a crude workaround (Substitute=" - CNN":""," - BBC News":"", etc...). If it's not possible with Substitute, is there another way? Using RegExp perhaps?

Thanks!

No way with Substitute short of the brute force approach you mentioned. With RegExp, you COULD use

<title>(.*) - .*

Which would return the title up to the first " - ", but you do run the risk of sometimes truncating the actual title information if it has that "space dash space" pattern in it.

[Shiva]

Thank you, worked like a charm!