Am 21.09.2013 um 19:11 schrieb Thangalin <thanga...@gmail.com>:
> Hi,
>
> Most programming languages allow extraction of a character or substring from
> a string. For example, if I wanted to stylize the word Index:
>
> I... Index ...X
>
> It would be handy to do something like:
>
> \bold{\getcharacter[1]{#!}}... #1
> ...\bold{\getcharacter[\stringlength{#!}]}
>
> That is a much more flexible solution than only providing a mechanism to get
> the first character.
>
> Is this possible?
You can use Lua!
\starttext
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",0,1)}
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",3,7)}
\cldcontext{string.sub("A short example text!",-5)}
\stoptext
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