On 2004-08-26 Philip Hazel <ph10@???> wrote:
> On Wed, 25 Aug 2004, Andreas Metzler wrote:
> >Thanks to Adam D. Barratt for enlightening me:
> >${substr_1:12345} and ${substr{1}{12345}} work as I had hoped.
> >
> >Could the documentation be made a little bit more verbose by including
> >a copy-and-paste-example?
> I will also make it say "if the second number and its preceding
> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> underscore are omitted".
> ^^^^^^^^^^
Thank you.
On hindsight I think I can remember having been unable to parse the
old documentation a year ago, too. ;-)
cu andreas