WHAT HAPPENED TO THE ARCVIEW FUNCTIONS LIKE TRIM, EXTRACT, SUBSTITUTE, ETC? HOW CAN I DO THOSE THINGS IN ARCGIS 10.51?

[lindatomaselli]

I used to use all sorts of neat tools when calculating, such as trim, extract, left right, substitute, etc.  What happened to these?  I want to use them in ArcGIS 19.51.

[TedKowal]

I am an old vb'r .... hate python but got to go with the changes.....  I found this site useful in starting to migrate my scripts over to python.

http://vb2py.sourceforge.net/cgi-bin/convert.py 

This is only a short term fix.... but it help move my stuff quickly with little re-writes.

But basic functions are not hard....

Trim

!myField!.strip()   or rstrip() or lstrip()

A good useful source I use is Python Reference (The Right Way) - DRAFT — Python Reference (The Right Way) 0.1 documentation 

[lindatomaselli]

Thanks for your help.

I don’t think I will become proficient in Python any time soon, but eventually I had to learn Avenue, so this may be no different…..until ESRI decides to make another big change to its programming language.

I took a college course on VB and got an “A” but never figured out how to use it with ArcGIS. That training has long been forgotten.

I like to keep things simple so I can pass my models on to other users, but knowing the way to use the old tools from ArcView is very helpful to me.

Dr. Linda Tomaselli, GISRDC

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[RebeccaStrauch__GISP]

Alphabetical list of ArcPy functions—Help | ArcGIS Desktop   is a good place to start.  You can find the functions you used and see sample code for most.

I'm looking for the 'ol functionality equivalent list and will post if I find it.  This assumes you are trying to convert AV custom tools to ArcPy.    BTW - there are many threads that talk about learning python and ArcPy if you are interested.  Do a quick search or one of use can post if you have issues.