/usr/lib/swipl/library/quintus.pl
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  • swipl
    • library
      • error.pl
      • debug.pl
      • apply.pl -- Apply predicates on a list
      • lists.pl -- List Manipulation
      • broadcast.pl
      • predicate_options.pl -- Access and analyse predicate options
      • shlib.pl -- Utility library for loading foreign objects (DLLs, shared objects)
      • option.pl -- Option list processing
      • thread_pool.pl
      • gensym.pl -- Generate unique symbols
      • settings.pl -- Setting management
      • arithmetic.pl -- Extensible arithmetic
      • main.pl -- Provide entry point for scripts
      • readutil.pl -- Read utilities
      • operators.pl -- Manage operators
      • pairs.pl -- Operations on key-value lists
      • prolog_source.pl -- Examine Prolog source-files
      • record.pl -- Access compound arguments by name
      • quasi_quotations.pl -- Define Quasi Quotation syntax
      • pure_input.pl -- Pure Input from files and streams
      • solution_sequences.pl -- Modify solution sequences
      • ordsets.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • random.pl -- Random numbers
      • base64.pl -- Base64 encoding and decoding
      • aggregate.pl -- Aggregation operators on backtrackable predicates
      • yall.pl -- Lambda expressions
      • sandbox.pl -- Sandboxed Prolog code
      • apply_macros.pl -- Goal expansion rules to avoid meta-calling
      • assoc.pl -- Binary associations
      • prolog_format.pl -- Analyse format specifications
      • csv.pl -- Process CSV (Comma-Separated Values) data
      • pprint.pl -- Pretty Print Prolog terms
      • atom.pl -- Operations on atoms
      • modules.pl -- Module utility predicates
      • occurs.pl -- Finding and counting sub-terms
      • prolog_xref.pl -- Prolog cross-referencer data collection
      • prolog_colour.pl -- Prolog syntax colouring support.
      • lazy_lists.pl -- Lazy list handling
      • ugraphs.pl -- Graph manipulation library
      • iostream.pl -- Utilities to deal with streams
      • url.pl -- Analysing and constructing URL
      • www_browser.pl -- Open a URL in the users browser
      • prolog_pack.pl -- A package manager for Prolog
      • git.pl -- Run GIT commands
      • utf8.pl -- UTF-8 encoding/decoding on lists of character codes.
      • quintus.pl -- Quintus compatibility
        • unix/1
        • otherwise/0
        • abs/2
        • sin/2
        • cos/2
        • tan/2
        • log/2
        • log10/2
        • pow/3
        • ceiling/2
        • floor/2
        • round/2
        • sqrt/2
        • acos/2
        • asin/2
        • atan/2
        • atan2/3
        • sign/2
        • genarg/3
        • prolog_flag/2
        • date/1
        • no_style_check/1
        • simple/1
        • current_stream/3
        • stream_position/3
        • skip_line/0
        • skip_line/1
        • compile/1
        • atom_char/2
        • midstring/3
        • midstring/4
        • midstring/5
        • midstring/6
        • raise_exception/1
        • on_exception/3
      • prolog_versions.pl -- Demand specific (Prolog) versions
      • prolog_wrap.pl -- Wrapping predicates
      • dialect.pl -- Support multiple Prolog dialects
      • date.pl -- Process dates and times
      • persistency.pl -- Provide persistent dynamic predicates
      • prolog_code.pl -- Utilities for reasoning about code
      • strings.pl -- String utilities
      • dif.pl -- The dif/2 constraint
      • edinburgh.pl -- Some traditional Edinburgh predicates
      • terms.pl -- Term manipulation
      • ansi_term.pl -- Print decorated text to ANSI consoles
      • threadutil.pl -- Interactive thread utilities
      • prolog_stack.pl -- Examine the Prolog stack
      • prolog_clause.pl -- Get detailed source-information about a clause
      • prolog_breakpoints.pl -- Manage Prolog break-points
      • wfs.pl -- Well Founded Semantics interface
      • sort.pl
      • dicts.pl -- Dict utilities
      • varnumbers.pl -- Utilities for numbered terms
      • rbtrees.pl -- Red black trees
      • backcomp.pl -- Backward compatibility
      • charsio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • base32.pl -- Base32 encoding and decoding
      • codesio.pl -- I/O on Lists of Character Codes
      • coinduction.pl -- Co-Logic Programming
      • heaps.pl -- heaps/priority queues
      • statistics.pl -- Get information about resource usage
      • when.pl -- Conditional coroutining
      • ctypes.pl -- Character code classification
      • prolog_jiti.pl -- Just In Time Indexing (JITI) utilities
      • listing.pl -- List programs and pretty print clauses
      • check.pl -- Consistency checking
      • help.pl -- Text based manual
      • prolog_profile.pl -- Execution profiler
      • shell.pl -- Elementary shell commands
      • qsave.pl -- Save current program as a state or executable
      • zip.pl -- Access resource ZIP archives
      • prolog_autoload.pl -- Autoload all dependencies
      • prolog_debug.pl -- User level debugging tools
      • writef.pl -- Old-style formatted write
      • make.pl -- Reload modified source files
      • thread.pl -- High level thread primitives
      • system.pl -- System utilities
      • nb_rbtrees.pl -- Non-backtrackable operations on red black trees
      • tables.pl -- XSB interface to tables
      • oset.pl -- Ordered set manipulation
      • prolog_metainference.pl -- Infer meta-predicate properties
      • prolog_codewalk.pl -- Prolog code walker
      • increval.pl -- Incremental dynamic predicate modification
      • win_menu.pl -- Console window menu
      • readln.pl -- Read line as list of tokens
      • prolog_coverage.pl -- Coverage analysis tool
      • exceptions.pl -- Exception classification
      • prolog_trace.pl -- Print access to predicates
      • macros.pl -- Macro expansion
      • nb_set.pl -- Non-backtrackable sets
      • intercept.pl -- Intercept and signal interface
      • edit.pl -- Editor interface
      • check_installation.pl -- Check installation issues and features
      • qpforeign.pl -- Quintus compatible foreign loader
      • prolog_config.pl -- Provide configuration information
      • files.pl
      • optparse.pl -- command line parsing
      • portray_text.pl -- Portray text
      • rwlocks.pl -- Read/write locks
 midstring(?ABC, ?B, ?AC) is nondet
 midstring(?ABC, ?B, ?AC, LenA) is nondet
 midstring(?ABC, ?B, ?AC, LenA, LenB) is nondet
 midstring(?ABC, ?B, ?AC, LenA, LenB, LenC) is nondet
Too difficult to explain. See the Quintus docs. As far as I understand them the code below emulates this function just fine.