title: How to remove first & last character of a text?
body: <p>I have a record that was converted into text like this:</p>
  
  <pre><code>("{""ACC_CODE"":""0/000"",""ACC_DECIMAL"":2}"})
  </code></pre>
  
  <p>I want to remove the <code>(</code> and the <code>)</code> so that I could convert the text into json.
  How do I do that?</p>
  
  <p>Edit: I don't want to use trim function because there are <code>(</code> &amp; <code>)</code> characters in the original text. </p>
  
  <p>I just want to remove the <code>first</code> &amp; <code>last</code> character.</p>