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How can I get the 5th and 6th letters from an 8 letter code and assign them to a scalar variable?<br />
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For example, if the code is ABCDEFGH I'd like the scaler to have the value of EF.<br />
thanks,
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How can I get the 5th and 6th letters from an 8 letter code and assign them to a scalar variable?

For example, if the code is ABCDEFGH I'd like the scaler to have the value of EF.
thanks,

simple regexp...

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