Swift: How to get substring from start to last index of character

Question

I want to learn the best/simplest way to turn a string into another string but with only a subset, starting at the beginning and going to the last index of a character.

Answer 1

func substr(myString: String, start: Int, clen: Int)->String

{
  var index2 = string1.startIndex.advancedBy(start)
  var substring2 = string1.substringFromIndex(index2)
  var index1 = substring2.startIndex.advancedBy(clen)
  var substring1 = substring2.substringToIndex(index1)

  return substring1   
}

substr(string1, start: 3, clen: 5)