Best Way to Shorten a Numeric Label

Question

Hello everyone,

I am not new to ArcMap, however I am in need of some help. I want to shorten a numeric label. Specifically I want to shorten 3001522708 to 22708. This data is tabulated into an attributes table, and is displayed easily by the labels tab in properties, however it is to long. I have already looked up other methods to shorten and/or change the labels using VBScript, Python, or JScript but I do not know the specific code to remove the first 5 numbers.

RhettZufelt · Answer

Thanks, didn't realize I did that.

For that matter, didn't know that you could.

Apparently I can't "un-mark" it?

R_

DanPatterson_Retired · Answer

You shouldn't really mark your own thread helpful... it draws moderator attention as well as those that posted in the thread

RhettZufelt · Answer

Not sure if you got this figured out, but this is one way. this will label with the last 5 digits of the numeric field as long as there are 5 or more digits. If less than 5, it will just label with however many it can get. >>> a = 3001522708 >>> str(a)[-5:] '22708' >>> a = 1234 >>> str(a)[-5:] '1234' >>> ‍‍‍‍‍‍‍