RosettaCodeData/Task/Substring-Top-and-tail/Vala/substring-top-and-tail.vala

// declare test string
string s = "Hello, world!";
// remove first letter
string s_first = s[1:s.length];
//remove last letter
string s_last = s[0:s.length - 1];
// remove first and last letters
string s_first_last = s[1:s.length - 1];