How do you "subtract" strings, as in turning "bananas" into "banana"?

The following program will subtract the last letter from ST$. ST$="bananas" IF LEN(ST$)>0 THEN ST$=LEFT$(ST$,LEN(ST$)-1) ENDIF ?ST$

Thanks!

you can also use POP() and SHIFT() to remove characters: ST$="bananas" LAST$=POP(ST$) ?ST$ This is useful if you want to save the last character.