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From: ch_purzl@rcvie.co.at (Klaus Puerzelmayer)
Subject: character string slices
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Hi!
How can I get a slice out of a character string ?

I found something like x[1:3] in the data model paper, but 
this does not work.

Thanks Klaus.


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