-- card: 4791 from stack: in
-- bmap block id: 0
-- flags: 0000
-- background id: 2764
-- name: 


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SubStr

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Jon Wind

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XFCN

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SubStr("string",startPosition,numberOfChars)

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Use this to get only a portion of a string at a time.  Handy if you need to look at one character at a time within a string.  This is eqivalent to Pascal's Copy function and BASIC's MID$.

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put substr("Mike Gleason",1,4) into firstname

repeat with x=1 to length of firstname
  put substr(firstname,x,1) into char
  if char="i" then play "Harpsichord"
end repeat