How to extract characters from the middle of a string?

[Mark Brownell]

on 7/7/04 2:37 PM, Marian Petrides at mpetrides at earthlink.net 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.
> 
> Thanks.
> 
> M

try:

put char 5 to 8 of yourTextFullOf25Characters into zippyDdoDaVar5to8

or 

delete char 5 to 8 of "abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyz"