On 7/7/04 9:50 PM, David Vaughan wrote:


On 08/07/2004, at 8:47, "J. Landman Gay" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:



If I have a string containing 25 characters, how do I extract the eight characters starting at position 5 in the string?
[In BASIC this would be left$(5,8) or some such.]
This should be a simple thing to do but I can't figure it out and can't figure out which dictionary item applies.


get char 5 to 12 of myString


Nice to see that the fourth answer to the question finally got the arithmetic part of the syntax right ;-)

Yeah, but I had to count on my fingers. ;)

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