Ok I see what you did there
Now say I want the ability to grab any character out of the hole string given the position of it.

Such as mystring123456 so when I find the length of it with length(), so 14 characters. Is there a way I can tell it I want the 6th and 7th characters. Or then just grab the 9th character.


#not actual code more just a logical walk through
if(the string has 20 characters){
     Get the 9th character;
     Get the characters 6-8;
}elsif(the string has 14 characters){
     Get the 6th character from the end;
     Get the last 4 characters from the end;
}

Sorry if this looks ugly but sometimes it helps me think through things like this.

In reply to Re^3: How do I cut single characters out of a string by akechnie
in thread How do I cut single characters out of a string by akechnie

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