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StringTake

StringTake
gives a string containing the first n characters in .
StringTake
gives the last n characters in .
StringTake
gives the ^(th) character in .
StringTake
gives characters m through n in .
StringTake
gives a list of the substrings specified by the .
StringTake
gives the list of results for each of the .
MORE INFORMATION
  • StringTake gives characters m through n in steps of s.
  • StringTake uses the standard Mathematica sequence specification.
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Basic Examples   (3)
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:
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Use InputForm to show quotes:
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Out[2]//InputForm=
 
Take from the end of the string:
In[1]:=
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Out[1]=
 
Take characters 5 through 10:
In[1]:=
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Out[1]=
Scope   (4)
Find character 6 in a string:
Take every other character:
Take the last 2 characters from several strings:
StringTake works with special characters:
Properties & Relations   (3)
Newline () counts as a single character:
StringTake can effectively do "part" extraction in strings:
StringTake works like applying Take to the list of characters:
Possible Issues   (2)
Taking between positions 1 and 0 gives a zero-length string:
StringTake operates on the raw characters in a string:
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