Extract the middle N chars of a string

[Steven D'Aprano]

On Thu, 19 May 2016 07:35 am, Grant Edwards wrote:

> On 2016-05-18, Steven D'Aprano <steve at pearwood.info> wrote:
> 
>> Getting the middle N seems like it ought to be easy:
> 
> I'm still trying to figure out when one would want to do that...

I wanted to centre some text and truncate it to a fixed width. So I needed
the middle N characters.



-- 
Steven