topic Re: how to slice a label field in Python Questions https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531307#M41611 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>In the "Label Expression" window, with Python selected as the Parser, type:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro">[Name].lstrip('ID']</PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This should remove ID from all of your labels.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>R</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:24:47 GMT RussellHooper 2014-06-24T15:24:47Z how to slice a label field https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531305#M41609 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>I have a field 'Name' where the first two letters of every string are 'ID'. Following 'ID' are between 1 and 2 characters, for example 'ID1' or 'ID11'. I want to create a label expression for arcGIS 10 that slices everything after ID. In python this is something like Name [2:] to return everything after the 2nd character. The label expression generator, however, only takes VBscript. Does anyone know what to do?</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>Wil</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Wed, 16 Feb 2011 23:56:23 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531305#M41609 wilfredwaters 2011-02-16T23:56:23Z Re: how to slice a label field https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531306#M41610 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>i fixed it by manually making a new field then field calculating it with !name![2:] (python was turned on as the parser. argGIS should allow a python parser in the expression generator</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Thu, 17 Feb 2011 01:10:15 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531306#M41610 wilfredwaters 2011-02-17T01:10:15Z Re: how to slice a label field https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531307#M41611 <HTML><HEAD></HEAD><BODY><SPAN>In the "Label Expression" window, with Python selected as the Parser, type:</SPAN><BR /><BR /><PRE __default_attr="plain" __jive_macro_name="code" class="jive_macro_code jive_text_macro">[Name].lstrip('ID']</PRE><BR /><BR /><SPAN>This should remove ID from all of your labels.</SPAN><BR /><BR /><SPAN>R</SPAN></BODY></HTML> Tue, 24 Jun 2014 15:24:47 GMT https://community.esri.com/t5/python-questions/how-to-slice-a-label-field/m-p/531307#M41611 RussellHooper 2014-06-24T15:24:47Z