How to extract characters from the middle of a string?

[Scott Rossi]

Recently, "Marian Petrides"  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.]

Does this do what you want:

  get char 5 to 13 of tString

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Scott Rossi
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