Trying to write a user script to return a unique ID

[Allan Parsons]

I am new to confluence and user macros.

I have managed to create a simple user script as follows - 

## @noparams
$content.getIdAsString()

Which works fine and returns the page id.

However I want to extend the functionality here to only return the last x characters in the string.

How would I do this?

[Allan Parsons · Accepted solution]

I tried the below and it gave me what I wanted.

## @noparams
$content.getIdAsString().substring(4)

Hopefully this helps somebody else also.

Thanks to Danyal for the tip.

[Danyal Iqbal · Accepted solution]

$content.getIdAsString().split()

#Velocity is just a façade for real Java objects, so you have access to all the public methods of the String class, including indexOf and substring.

[Allan Parsons]

Hi,

Thanks for taking the time to respond.

I have no experience in Java, so am googling everything I am trying here (I found the code above after a bunch of googling also.)

Will also google this Velocity stuff and hopefully figure out how to manipulate the string to return what I want.

Any tips?