I am teaching a course on the ACSL competition to middle school students and my programming skills are little rusty. In the next competition we have a programming challenge where they need to create a program that you can input a string and several substring parameters. The problem is that they need to be able to input a negative number and have it produce the desired result. For example:
with the string "Hello world!"
input 1: 0, -1 output 1: Hello world
input 2: 0,-5 output 2: Hello w
input 3: -4,0 output 3: rld!
I am at a little bit of a loss as how to go about getting the desired output.