fcn strip(text,c){  // if c in text, remove it and following text
   if (Void!=(n:=text.find(c))) text=text[0,n];
   text.strip()		// remove leading and trailing white space
}
fcn stripper(text,a,b,c,etc){ // strip a,b,c,etc from text
   foreach c in (vm.arglist[1,*]){ text=strip(text,c) }
   text
}