Hi,

Most programming languages allow extraction of a character or substring from a string. For example, if I wanted to stylize the word Index:

I... Index ...X

It would be handy to do something like:

    \bold{\getcharacter[1]{#!}}... #1 ...\bold{\getcharacter[\stringlength{#!}]}

That is a much more flexible solution than only providing a mechanism to get the first character.

Is this possible?