RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring-Top-and-tail/Maple/substring-top-and-tail-2.maple

> substring( s, 2 .. -1 );
                              "ome string"

> substring( s, 1 .. -2 );
                              "some strin"

> substring( s, 2 .. -2 );
                              "ome strin"