# Help - Remove characters from text (variable)

**URL:** <https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-remove-characters-from-text-variable/3655170>\
**Category:** Issues / Bugs\
**Tags:** beginner, help\
**Created:** [March 14, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-remove-characters-from-text-variable/3655170 "2025-03-14T00:43:49Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 3\
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**Author:** ![skadaiy3lcy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@skadaiy3lcy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/skadaiy3lcy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 12:43am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-remove-characters-from-text-variable/3655170/1 "2025-03-14T00:43:49Z")

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Hello, i am trying to make a’’ message sent 3 hours ago’’ type of thing but i want to remove the ''0 ‘‘and the ‘’.’’ from (ex: 0.13 = 13 + minutes) so here some pictures i don’t know what to do.

 ![Screenshot 2025-03-13 20.41.25](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/6/0/60504578fb767ec164dc0cc1665b6c20bbaf909a.png)  
Thanks alot.

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**Author:** ![tatiang](https://sea1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/user_avatar/community.thunkable.com/tatiang/32/55482_2.png) [@tatiang](https://community.thunkable.com/u/tatiang)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 5:34am UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-remove-characters-from-text-variable/3655170/2 "2025-03-14T05:34:15Z")

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Are the “hour” values 0 to 23? And are the minute values 0 to 59? That matters because “0.05” (5 minutes) is different from “0.5” (5 minutes).

It seems like you’re asking how to convert “0.13” to “13 minutes”. You can use a combination of the [Find First Occurrence](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/blocks/text#find-first-last-occurrence) text block and the [Get Substring](https://docs.thunkable.com/blocks/blocks/text#get-substring) text block to achieve that.

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**Author:** ![skadaiy3lcy](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/8491ac/32.png) [@skadaiy3lcy](https://community.thunkable.com/u/skadaiy3lcy)\
**Post date:** [March 14, 2025, 3:05pm UTC](https://community.thunkable.com/t/help-remove-characters-from-text-variable/3655170/3 "2025-03-14T15:05:08Z")

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The values are 1 to 100, i don’t know how to do that but the time with always show 1 to 60, the API. and the number i chose is between 1 to 60 so it make it seems like time. I’ll use what you recommanded me, thanks.  
 ![Screenshot 2025-03-14 11.01.30](https://us1.discourse-cdn.com/flex015/uploads/thunkable/original/3X/c/7/c7a1c34b30815a322c83ab1274f6a3a0f768034c.png)