How to Remove a certain part of a string (if exists)?

External question — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: Umer Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/67492410 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. I am trying to make the EA look for a certain value in a string and if that value exists in the string then remove it. I tried doing it using the StringReplace() but i noticed it only returns the number of replacements and didnt actually returned the updated string: string v5="- .82523"; string temp2 = v5; temp2= StringReplace(temp2," ",""); Print(v5,temp2); in the above code there is a white space between " - " and " .82523 " and i am trying to remove that white space. so the string is - .82523 and i am trying to get -.82523 , which function can be used for this ? initially i thought i could do it by using the StringReplace() function , but seems like it only returns the Number of replacements that had happened and not the updated string. Thanks in Advance

External answer — Stack Overflow Stack Exchange Author: PaulB Original post: https://stackoverflow.com/a/67492524 License: CC BY-SA 4.0 — https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ Adaptation: HTML converted to plain text; contact email addresses removed. You are using the StringReplace() function incorrectly. Try the following code (from your example). string v5="- .82523"; string temp2 = v5; StringReplace(temp2," ",""); Print("<",v5,"> <",temp2,">");