Quote: in Icon, use 'move' and 'tab' to move cursor and return the intervening substring

Note

move (n) [relative] and tab (n) [absolute] moves the cursor to a new position and returns the substring between the previous and new cursor positions. Afterwards &tab has a positive value.

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