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.TH Text.from 3 2025-04-30 "Tomo man-pages"
.SH NAME
Text.from \- slice from a starting index
.SH LIBRARY
Tomo Standard Library
.SH SYNOPSIS
.nf
.BI Text.from\ :\ func(text:\ Text,\ first:\ Int\ ->\ Text)
.fi
.SH DESCRIPTION
Get a slice of the text, starting at the given position.


.SH ARGUMENTS

.TS
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Name	Type	Description	Default
text	Text	The text to be sliced. 	-
first	Int	The index to begin the slice. 	-
.TE
.SH RETURN
The text from the given grapheme cluster to the end of the text.

.SH NOTES
A negative index counts backwards from the end of the text, so `-1` refers to the last cluster, `-2` the second-to-last, etc. Slice ranges will be truncated to the length of the text.

.SH EXAMPLES
.EX
>> "hello".from(2)
= "ello"

>> "hello".from(-2)
= "lo"
.EE