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ksh substring commands

I am trying to get various portions of strings in my script, but am getting a substitution error. I followed the syntax that was described when I goggled this, but I can't get anything to work.

Code:

 #! /bin/ksh/

hello="adklafk;afak"
#hello=${hello:3}
hello=${$hello:3}

happy="hey"
echo ${happy:0:1}

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Maybe you are at ksh88 or HP-UX, because ksh93 supports that kinda substring syntax.

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