text,start_num,num_bytes!Returns characters from the middle of a text string, given a starting position and length. Use with ...

!text,start_num,num_bytes!!Returns characters from the middle of a text string, given a starting position and length. Use with double-byte character sets (DBCS)!is the text string containing the characters you want to extract!is the position of the first character you want to extract in text!specifies how many characters to return from text!