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Edit summary for version 55 by andyjduncan:
New Groovy implementation by user [andyjduncan]
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Version 54

2020-07-18, 21:15:52

Version 55

2020-10-10, 11:59:39

Idiom #46 Extract beginning of string (prefix)

Create string t consisting of the 5 first characters of string s.

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Idiom #46 Extract beginning of string (prefix)

Create string t consisting of the 5 first characters of string s.

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Variables
t,s
Variables
t,s
Code 
def t = s.take(5)
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Returns the entire string if shorter than five characters.
Doc URL
https://docs.groovy-lang.org/latest/html/groovy-jdk/java/lang/CharSequence.html#take(int)
Demo URL
https://groovyconsole.appspot.com/script/5137761203912704