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This function removes a substring in a UTF-8 string by using a position range.

Syntax

 utf8.remove ( )

Code Examples

server

This example shows how to remove substrings from strings.

-- Keep the first and last character
local input = "яблоко"
local output = utf8.remove( input, 2, -2 )
print( output ) -- яо

-- Remove the last character
local input = "Банан"
local output = utf8.remove( input, -1, -1 )
print( output ) -- Бана

See Also

Reference

• Scripting Functions