How do you delete characters in a string?

[webmasterpdx]

So, this is seems to be the most optimized version for now.

Code:


// Drop chars from string.
// S   String.
// L   Pos of leftmost char before deletion.
// R   Pos of first char on right after deletion.
EXPORT STRDEL(S,L,R)
BEGIN
LOCAL N:=DIM(S);
RETURN IFTE(L<1,"",S(1,L))+IFTE(R>N,"",S(R,N)); // N just has to go past end of string
END; // BEGIN...