Re: [Jython-dev] Substring() Functionality?

[dman <ds...@ri...>]

On Thu, Dec 13, 2001 at 05:29:09PM +0530, Sac...@i2... wrote:
| Hi,
| 
| We are using JPython in one of our products. Infact we have just started 
| using this.
| 
| I am really stuck at one place :-(
| 
| My requirement is to get first 10 characters from a given string A. Does 
| this language have some built-in function (like strncpy()/ 
| string.substring() etc) to do so?
| 
| Also, could you please provide some generic API which we can use?

It is called "slicing" and can be used on any sequence type (ie list
and tuple also).  Take a look at the tutorial on www.python.org.  The
situation given above :

s = "a string with more than 10 characters"
print s[:10]

-D

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