Extract the middle N chars of a string

Wed May 18 17:35:31 EDT 2016

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...

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