topic Re: substrings of path dynamic text in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200665#M15418 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You should look at the methods that are available in the os.path module. Their purpose is for parsing and manipulating file and folder path strings.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:15:03 GMT BruceNielsen 2012-03-14T01:15:03Z substrings of path dynamic text https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200664#M15417 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>For an mxd that has the file path as dynamic text, is it possible to extract one or more substrings of characters from either the full path or the document name, and assign the substrings to variables to be used to populate text strings elsewhere within the mxd? I'd prefer to do this within an open mxd.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Thanks </SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Matt Millard</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 13 Mar 2012 21:00:27 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200664#M15417 MattMillard 2012-03-13T21:00:27Z Re: substrings of path dynamic text https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200665#M15418 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>You should look at the methods that are available in the os.path module. Their purpose is for parsing and manipulating file and folder path strings.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 14 Mar 2012 01:15:03 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200665#M15418 BruceNielsen 2012-03-14T01:15:03Z Re: substrings of path dynamic text https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200666#M15419 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>The string module allows you to search for substrings.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>os.path.basename and os.path.dirname will break up the mxd name and path.</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Mon, 19 Mar 2012 03:40:55 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/substrings-of-path-dynamic-text/m-p/200666#M15419 StephenBarrow 2012-03-19T03:40:55Z