Simon Willison’s Weblog

16th February 2022

TIL Combining substr and instr to extract text — Derek Willis has [a Datasette instance full of political campaign emails](https://political-emails.herokuapp.com/) running on Heroku.

Posted 16th February 2022 at 2:05 am

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