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		samwhiteUK on June 13, 2022 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Show HN: Tuc – When cut doesn’t cut it When I want to use negative indices, I pipe the string through rev first, then do my cut, then rev again

mprovost on June 13, 2022 [–]

That's the classic solution but blows up when using multibyte characters since rev just reads the bytes in each line in reverse.

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