Remove words up to a certain number of words

[Tony007]

Hello,

I have a certain number of words (10 - 20 words) separated by a comma. What can I do that only the first 5 words remain, the rest should be deleted?

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@Tony007

Post an example and what you have tried so far

[Tony007]

Sorry but I have no examples, I searched on google and autoit help, but I do not know what to look for. 

[Tony007]

Do you know what commands can help me?

[1957classic]

Look up StringSplit in the help files. That should get you started.

[FrancescoDiMuro]

28 minutes ago, Tony007 said:

Sorry but I have no examples

So you are working on nothing, since you have nothing to try the script with.

[Tony007]

I need something like this, but the first 5 words should stay and not the characters.

 

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

Local $sString = StringLeft("Mon,Tues,Wed,Thur,Fri,Sat,Sun", 5) ; Retrieve 5 characters from the left of the string.
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The 5 leftmost characters are: " & $sString)

 

[FrancescoDiMuro]

@Tony007

If you need to split those strings in different ones, then you can use StringSplit() with the comma set as separator, which will return an array of eight (seven, if the parameter $STR_NOCOUNT is set), in which each element represents a day of the week.

From there, you can do whatever you want with that array

[Gianni]

ok what FrancescoDiMuro sayd, or, using another way, you could also combine togheter StringLeft and StringInString so that StringInString can find the position of the fifth comma and keep all chars on the left up to that position less 1

#include <MsgBoxConstants.au3>

$sList = "Mon,Tues,Wed,Thur,Fri,Sat,Sun"

$iWords = 5 ; words to keep on the left

Local $sString = StringLeft($sList, StringInStr($sList & ',', ',', 1, $iWords) - 1)
MsgBox($MB_SYSTEMMODAL, "", "The " & $iWords & " leftmost words are: " & $sString)

 

[iamtheky]

Also consider that since you know what you want, you can just ignore the other stuff altogether

#include<array.au3>

local $aList[] = ["Mon","Tues","Wed","Thur","Fri","Sat","Sun"]

_ArrayDisplay($aList , "The first 5 items" , 4)