Function that does what cut does?

[Jesse W. Asher]

I was wondering if there was a function in the standard library that
does the same thing that cut does - cut out certain fields out of a
specified file using variable field delimiters.  I didn't want to 
write one without first checking to see if one already existed someplace
I was unaware of.  Thanx for any information.

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