returns a section from a document starting and ending with lines defined by their line numbers.

Syntax

Arguments

• Document$ is a string containing the source document.
• FirstLineNo% is the number of the line at which you want the section to start.
• LastLineNo% is an optional value, containing the number of the last line of the section.

Remarks

1. When no last line is given, the function returns all text from Document$ starting with FirstLineNo%.
2. If FirstLineNo% = 0, the function returns a string starting at the first line of the source document.
3. If LastLineNo% = 0, the function returns all text from Document$ starting with FirstLineNo%.
4. One can also use the SECTION$() function to return a section of a document.

Examples

Let Document$ contain the text:

Example 1

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Example 2

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