# AS2::Removing text from a string

**URL:** <https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-removing-text-from-a-string/248456>\
**Category:** flash\
**Created:** [January 8, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-removing-text-from-a-string/248456 "2008-01-08T11:35:35Z")\
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**Post date:** [January 8, 2008, 11:35am UTC](https://forum.kirupa.com/t/as2-removing-text-from-a-string/248456/1 "2008-01-08T11:35:35Z")

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I have a time format like so: 00:00:00.00 (hours, minutes, seconds, millieseconds). This is stored into a string called adminTime.

But I need to make it so that the string takes what ever the time is and changes it to 00:00 (hours and minutes)

So basically a way of looping though the string and removing the seonds and milleseconds.

Thanks for any help.