vle-sublist

(vle-sublist lst startidx nritems)

creates a sublist from given input list 'lst', starting with item at index 'startidx' and of maximum 'nritems' number of list items from 'lst'

Arguments	'lst' list to extract a sublist from 'startidx' index of first item for sublist (0-based); if 'startidx' is < 0, 0 is used 'nritems' number of items to be copied from 'lst' list; if 'nritems' is < 0, all items after 'startidx' are copied to result list
Return	a sublist of 'lst' starting with index 'startidx' and containing 'nritems' of input list 'lst'; if 'lst' has not enough items, only the items of 'lst' are copied to result list, no NIL is appended
Example	(vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 3) => '(3 4 5) (vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 -1) => '(3 4 5 6 7) (vle-sublist '(1 2 3 4 5 6 7) 2 10) => '(3 4 5 6 7)
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Remarks	index is 0-based