[kpayne]

I couldn't find a smarty modifier to do this automatically, so here's the plan:

In your smarty.php file, add this code:

$smarty->register_modifier("substr", "substr");

Right above this line:

$mail_smarty = $smarty;

Then in your templates, you can say:

{$code|substr:1,1}

Remeber that the 1st character of a string is in position 0 so the 2nd character is in position 1.

Hope this helps!

(This is untested, BTW)