# Variable completion removing trailing characters
**URL:** https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/variable-completion-removing-trailing-characters/3141
**Category:** Bugs
**Created:** [August 21, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/variable-completion-removing-trailing-characters/3141 "2009-08-21T05:46:06Z")
**Posts on this page:** 2
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### Author:  [@simon\_page](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/simon_page)
#### Post date: [August 21, 2009, 5:46am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/variable-completion-removing-trailing-characters/3141/1 "2009-08-21T05:46:06Z")
If you use variable completion to replace an existing variable that is within other characters then after the replacement the other characters are still intact as expected, e.g:
1) Text has: “%FBPROJECTDIR%\Test”
2) Put cursor inside the text and from variable completion select say FBDIR and the result is “%FBDIR%\Test”.
However if you want to insert a new variable then the remaining text is lost, e.g.:
1) Text has: “\Test” after removing a hard coded path.
2) Put cursor after first quote and from the variable completion select variable and the remainder of the line is removed leaving:
"%FBDIR%
The only workaround is to ensure there is a space after the cursor location, which incidentally gets removed after the variable completion.
FB5 worked correctly in both cases. Using FB 6.3.0.1666
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### Author:  [@paulsamways](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/u/paulsamways)
#### Post date: [August 24, 2009, 2:30am UTC](https://www.finalbuilder.com/forums/t/variable-completion-removing-trailing-characters/3141/2 "2009-08-24T02:30:48Z")
Hi Simon,
We’ve checked a fix in for this issue, will let you know as soon as a new build is available.
Regards,
Paul.