How to extract characters from the middle of a string?

[J. Landman Gay]

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

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> On 08/07/2004, at 8:47,  "J. Landman Gay" <jacque at hyperactivesw.com> wrote:
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>>> 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.
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>> get char 5 to 12 of myString
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> 
> 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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