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Built-in Mathematica Symbol

StringTake

StringTake["string", n]
gives a string containing the first n characters in "string".

StringTake["string", -n]
gives the last n characters in "string".

StringTake["string", {n}]
gives the n

character in "string".

StringTake["string", {m, n}]
gives characters m through n in "string".

StringTake["string", {spec₁, spec₂, ...}]
gives a list of the substrings specified by the spec_i.

StringTake[{s₁, s₂, ...}, spec]
gives the list of results for each of the s_i.

Take the first 6 characters in a string:

Use InputForm to show quotes:

Take from the end of the string:

Take characters 5 through 10:

Take the first 6 characters in a string:

Use InputForm to show quotes:

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Take from the end of the string:

Take characters 5 through 10:

Find character 6 in a string:

Take every other character:

Take the last 2 characters from several strings:

StringTake works with special characters:

Newline (\n) counts as a single character:

StringTake can effectively do "part" extraction in strings:

StringTake works like applying Take to the list of characters:

Taking between positions 1 and 0 gives a zero-length string:

StringTake operates on the raw characters in a string: