in the tcsh 6.10.00 WishList file:
> * New idea.
> Lots of people seem to like the idea to be able to do sed type
> operations on shell variables. Maybe we can extend the syntax
> of the variable editing to understand string operations.
> So I would like to be able to use:
> > set a="this is a STRING"
> > echo $a:[3-]
> is is a STRING
> > echo $a:[#]
> 16
> > echo $a:[6-7]
> is
> > echo $a:[-2]
> ng
> > echo $a:[-20]
> Subscript out of bounds.
> > echo $a:[2-20]
> Subscript out of bounds.
> > echo $a:[1-1]:u$a:[2-].
> This is a string.
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