Shell : How to perform a text substring?

Choose your weapon of choice:

localhost>expr substr "123456" 1 3
123

localhost>echo "123456" | cut -c1-3
123

localhost>echo "123456" | awk '{print substr($0, 1, 3)}'
123

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