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PURPOSE:
substr2tcl extracts ia substring from an input string when
you know the position of the starting character. 


EXECUTION:


str2tcl parses the characters in inval to ensure that the
characters are part of a number. If they are not then  it
returns -999 if types 2 or 4 are specified or 
-9.990000000000e+02 if typrs 7 or 8 are specified.



EXAMPLES:

substr2tcl inval="This is a string test" stchar=11 numchar=7 substr

          extracts the string "string" into the substring given
          the TCL variable substr

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REVISION HISTORY:

 ORIGINAL PROGRAMMER:    R. Bambery          02 Oct 2013
 COGNIZANT PROGRAMMER:   R. Bambery          02 Oct 2013
 
  Oct 02, 2013  Ray Bambery -  Initial version
  2022-08-10 B. Crocco afids to opensource (untested)
  

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