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String formatting in X-Cart/Smarty

I'm trying to reformat a string and then pass it to our shipping companies web site for tracking.

I have done it previously in asp / vb but am new to smarty and am finding the syntax a little hard going.

Heres the vb code

Code:

 ticketnumber = replace (ticketnumber ," ", "")  'remove spaces

  ticketnumber = replace (ticketnumber ,".", "") 'remove .

  serial_number = right (ticketnumber,8)   ' get serial number - always 8 digits

  product_code = left (ticketnumber,(len(ticketnumber)-8)) ' get product code, could be 2 or 3 char

Can someone give me a "translation" for Smarty ?

Seems from (my very limited) expereince I will need to set it up as a plugin and do it under php ???

Thanks

Re: String formatting in X-Cart/Smarty

use replace and substr

ie:

replace:" ":""

substr:8

you can pipe these together as well, ie:

{$ticketnumber|replace:" ":""|substr:8}

Re: String formatting in X-Cart/Smarty

That pointed me in the right direction. all working now.

Thanks :D