Problem Statement

The task is to demonstrate how to remove the first and last characters from a string. The solution should demonstrate how to obtain the following results:

If the program uses UTF-8 or UTF-16, it must work on any valid Unicode code point, whether in the Basic Multilingual Plane or above it. The program must reference logical characters (code points), not 8-bit code units for UTF-8 or 16-bit code units for UTF-16. Programs for other encodings (such as 8-bit ASCII, or EUC-JP) are not required to handle all Unicode characters.

Let's start with the solution:

import "/str" for Str

var a = "Beyoncé"
var b = Str.delete(a, 0)
var len = a.codePoints.count
var c = Str.delete(a, len-1)
var d = Str.delete(c, 0)
for (e in [a, b, c, d]) System.print(e)