Equivalent of Substring Function in Visualforce pages

[SalesRed]

Hello,

In Apex there is the substring function.  I'm wondering, in Visualforce is there an equivalent.

E.G.  if I have a string 'testme:helloVal'.  I want to get the value of the string from the colon ";" to the end of the string.

How can do this within a Visualforce page (not in a controller).

I know there are functions such as "Right",  "LEN" etc that formula's use (e.g. with a workflow rule) and that some of these can be applied to visualforce, but I wasn't sure how I could make the above requirement work.

Any tips welcomed.

Thanks for your help!

[vishal@force · Accepted solution]

See if this helps:

{!RIGHT('testme:helloVal',(FIND(':', 'testme:helloVal') + 1))}

Here, first we find the index number of ':', and then from Right we fetch the text based on that.

[SalesRed]

Thank you for your help!

[SFDH]

I want to split a name that is selected from dropdown list box and make to create LEAD first name and Last name , how to do that so ??

eg : "Jonh ken" is the name ,

• i want to split it like John for the first name and
• Ken for the second name ,
• Is it possible to use substring to do this , pls help

thanks in advance