x <- c("A", "B", "C", "D", "E")
slice_char(x, "A", "D")
slice_char(x, "D", "A")
x <- c("A", "B", "C", "C", "A", "D", "D", "E", "A")
slice_char(x, "B", "E")
# duplicated element as boundary will throw an error
# slice_char(x, 'A', 'E')
# unique=TRUE to remove the duplicated boundary characters
slice_char(x, "A", "E", unique = TRUE)
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