Substring/Top and tail: Difference between revisions

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<lang awk>BEGIN {
mystring="knightknights"
print substr(mystring,2) # remove the first letter
print substr(mystring,1,length(mystring)-1) # remove the last character
print substr(mystring,2,length(mystring)-12) # remove both the first and last character
}</lang>