Extracting part of a string from a variable

[stevenwhyte]

If I have some text, e.g. "elephant" stored in the variable MyString, how would I extract the last three characters from the variable MyString to get "ant"?

In other languages, the function Right(MyString, 3) would do this but there doesn't seem to be such a function in LiveCode.

Many thanks,

Steven

[Dixie]

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   put char -3 to -1 of myString
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[stevenwhyte]

Thank you