Re: How do I get text from the buffer? SLang?

["John E. Davis" <davis@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx <jeremy@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>I have found where I want to start and end, I have those stored in
>two variables, but I do not know how to then retrieve the text between
>those two columns.

   define extract_text_between_columns (a, b)
   {
       goto_column (a);
       push_mark ();
       goto_column (b);
       return bufsubstr ();
   }

--John

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